I just created a Character Style “All Caps”
Clicked the “Basic Charcter Format” from the list and selected “All Caps” from the dropdown selection for Case:

Then I edited my SubHead Style Sheet in the GREP Style section. Click New GREP Style, paste the command string from above :\s\l|[-\s]\l(?!(f|he|nd?|o|y|rom|or)?\b) and select “All Caps” for the Apply Style selection.

Hope this proves helpful for other InDesigners.

The GREP does two more things: it converts to upper case any word that follows a colon or a hyphen.
The colon stuff is in the first half, before the very first pipe character.

Jenn, that GREP should be

^[^:]+:

I can go into great detail on this GREP expression when asked …

However, there are more than a few problems. You can apply “[None]“, either with search & replace, or using a nested grep style. But: applying the None char style doesn’t do anything. It removes present character styles, but the original formatting is preserved.
You can create a new character style in which you set every possible attribute to Normal (not underlined, normal case, no superscript, etc. for everything). That does not work in a GREP style for manually applied formatting, you need a search-and-replace for that.

I realize this is slightly off topic, but I am trying to do what seems like a relatively simple find/change using GREP and can’t quite get it to work.

I need to search for everything up to and including a colon at the beginning of a paragraph and set the character style sheet to ‘none.’

I can go into detail if you need, but it’s sort of complicated, the reasoning behind it…

Thanks for any help!!

Snip
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Copy this (including the initial colon) into the Find what field
:sl|[-s]l(?!(f|he|nd?|o|y|rom|or)?b)

Nice Freudian slip

Thanks for the nice words. You’re right: it shouldn’t be so difficult to do something with an editable list, similar to Autocorrect. Let’s hope it’ll make it in the next version. There have been many requests for it.

Peter

I still for the life of me can’t figure out after 3 versions of CS that there is no option in the Paragraph or Character styles to have Title Case and so on, or have an editable table or something that can adjusted accordingly for Title Cases, leaving out conjunctions or in as needed. It’s just something that has annoyed me, and I read somewhere that Adobe had corrected this in CS3 but the feature just wasn’t there.

Nor was it included in the few free GREPs that were included by default.

I just don’t want you think that I haven’t taken note of this code and saved it in my GREPs for future use or reference, because I have.

I only thought to mention the script because I feel I’m not alone in not having Smart Title Cases. Now am I not only not alone but I’ve also got 2 ways of achieving the same thing. Which is great, because who wants one to do things in InDesign anyway?