Comments on: Find/Change Objects and Attributes in InDesign CS3

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:15:04 +0000

@Beth: Wow. That is pretty odd. Might be time to rebuild the ol’ preferences file!

By: Beth Thomas

Beth Thomas — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:24:48 +0000

Often, when I go into the Find/Change dialogue box and try to type in the “Find what” field it doesn’t let me and the cursor actually flicks back to the document and types there instead. So if you searching for “ink” you’ll see the first few letter appear in the Find/Change box and then disappear and appear in the document instead.

Has anyone ever had this problem? And if so, how is it fixed/avoided?

By: Rick Gordon

Rick Gordon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:03:10 +0000

Yes, Trish. In AppleScript, write something like the following, using the strings that are currently in the GREP dialog (or Find Text dialog):

tell application “Adobe InDesign CS3″
  tell active document
  set tableList to tables of stories
    repeat with eachItem in tableList
      tell eachItem
        change grep –for GREP, OR
       –change text –for text
      end tell
    end repeat
  end tell
end tell

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:06:29 +0000

Does anyone know if it’s possible to search for texts in tables only?

By: Lisa Lee

Lisa Lee — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:40:54 +0000

Could anyone help! With the current reduction in VAT I need to amend a 40pp brochure to accommodate these price changes is there a quick way to amend all prices from 17.5% to 15% in Adobe Indesign CS3

By: Ir

Ir — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:04:25 +0000

Find/Change has a “featurenotabug” in that it automatically clears overrides (which some people don’t like, but works great in your situation) whenever you specify a Paragraph Style in the Change Format area.

I’m using ID CS3 and tried to change all [Basic Paragraph] of the footnotes (of a placed text) to MyFootnoteParagraph, but the ‘clear overrides’ was not applied.

Maybe it’s because the footnote number is formatted by ID, i.e. differently…? Who knows…

I solved my problem incidently – tried to find/change some white spaces (i.e. entedred some text in the find/change text fields) and forgot to remove the mentioned find/change formatting. That turned the ‘clear overrides’ on.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:46:09 +0000

@Gabriel, if it's just one image, you could do this with this inline object trick .

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:51:38 +0000

Hi,

Does anyone know how to replace text with an object in find/change.

e.g. replace the word “yes” with an image found at “file://hardrive/” ect.

any help would be much appreciated.

Gabriel

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:39:24 +0000

Manuj: I am sorry to say that I cannot think of any way to automate this. In theory, you could find a way to do it by using GREP in an INX file, but I think it would take longer to figure that out than it would to simply do it manually.

However, one other idea: Could you use the Pathfinder features to change the look of the frame? For example, if you put a jaggy shape on top of the current frame, you could then select both frames and choose Object > Pathfinder > Subtract.

By: manuj bajaj

manuj bajaj — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:02:53 +0000

one correction… in corel draw you can only find objects based on type of polygon, number of sides, number of nodes, and Horizontal and Vertical sizes… you can select them and after finding them you can change various attributes like color model, fills, outline strokes properties etc…. but you still cant change the object shapes… You can also find an object by a name you have already assigned to it earlier… thats pretty neat… but still we cant change it with some other object of different shape… I believe that is possible with GREP… someone please tell me HOW!… tomorrow I shall start the conversion process if nothing is found by then…Thanks in advance…