I have 3 line of text and each line end has hard return (e.g. #Name of location.
Address of location.
Town, State, Zip).

i want a apply one character style to each of line text. so please suggest how could i achieve it using grep style in indesing CS4
What is the code of change it.

You could create a “Custom Text” text variable. Name it something like “Edition” and type in “November”.

Insert that text variable wherever, cover, folios, masthead, etc.
The following month, just change the Custom Text text variable.

Just another way…

I’ve created generic templates that use these custom text variables as company placeholders, i.e. quick branding minus logos and artwork. Works great for items like name, address, taglines. Usually in the case of an InDesign book (.indb), where I can change the text variable(s), then sync the text variable(s) across all the InDesign documents within the book.

but find/replace works for your approach, too…

(what’s my obsession with parentheses)

All you need is a reflection in a pair of sunglasses on someone 300 feet away to make out a license plate and the driver in the rear view mirror.

Fascinating stuff.

I’ll have to look into that. Thanks for the never-ending info!

Ha, pulling my leg there, I didn’t get to the last part of the paragraph as I rushed to google with the excitement of InDesign Pro Extended, as I know photoshop has a similar product.

Good one

Of course you can save the searches, so it would be easy to create a “find change by list” script as soon as you start work on the new document… which was talked about recently and I can’t find the link?

Well the find change by list could easily be edited to run a number of find changes that is necessary before you start working on a new monthly magazine.

I suppose.

You must not have purchased the InDesign Pro Extended 3D “Prize Inside!” version, then. Not only does it allow you to do next day/year/month variables, but also has the enhanced Undo features, About to Do (Command-Shift-Enter-Z) and Should Have Done (fn-Z).

Well, there are always different ways to do something, but this was the “Way of the Variable” and of course it can be done.

Pity you can’t put some sort of condition in the variable say: mm{1}/dd/yy

So that the mm is changed up 1 month, that’s what the “{1}” could be used for.

That way you wouldn’t have to do anything.

Of course using the variable of the file name would work very well, because who saves over monthly work, certainly any magazine I’ve done is named with the month in the file name.

I was thinking of a similar problem I have, as we put issue numbers on each magazine cover. And it’s a pain to remember to change this. So, I would like to have a variable that would change the issue number, some way of linking to the other files variable so that it knows that it already as done Issue 5 and we’re on Issue 6.

But I guess I can only dream for such a feature, for now, a NOTES non-printing layer will be used to serve as a reminder.

Although unless I’m missing something, in Rudy’s case, it seems simplest just to do a Find/Change and be done with it.

If you set your computer clock forward one month, then use the variable for Output Date, the date will show next month. All you have to do is remember you’re one month ahead, so technically today would be Christmas for your computer

Although this worked for my computer, the date did reset itself from the server, so the date reverted back to November, so not sure it’s a solution after all.

Although, if you do name your document the Date of the output, so you name the file December for example, you can create a new Variable that will insert the File Name.

So then next month you can simply copy that document and/or change the name of the document to the month you want to appear.

That way the file name controls the Variable text.