Search and replace Question

I would like to find text in a document and add a space at the beginning of a style. I can't simply replace text because its different text throughout the book. Is there a way to invke the Clipboard in one search and replace? For example...

If ^ c were the command to copy and paste the selection yould be able to use

' ^ m ^ p ' in the section replace, add a space in the world, it finds my search criteria.

One more thing, im stuck semi with CS3 to do this and would like to keep in CS3, but might, if I'm using CS4 and then export to CS3... new id really prefer does not however.

I think you're going to need two styles, one for the first paragraph of the quotation and the other for the following paragraphs in the citation. What you do universally for the style, if you have only one, will affect all paragraphs with this style.

You never responded to my previous questions as these quotes don't in running text or separate executives. If they are in the text running there is no reason to use the paragraph NET, unless you want to push the line down, at the top of a column (which, in my opinion is ugly and one of the main arguments against the addition of an empty paragraph). The space is a better and simpler choices. If the quotes are in separate frames, you can adjust the Insert at the top of the page text to push. You don't need anything special at all (nor a second style), and you can save as part of a style object.

Overall, my response to this question is that you approach the problem from the wrong direction. It's just a matter of definition of style, if style paragraph or style object and find/replace should play no role, except perhaps to allow you to easily locate the quotes to change the style of the first paragraph. You'll still need to do them one by one, but find the change can locate all so you do not need to go page by page.

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