Find Change fails to apply paragraph styles

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    • #88624
      Matt Mayerchak
      Participant

      I use Find Change (both Text and GREP tabs) to apply paragraph styles to found text all the time. It’s a major part of my workflow in typesetting long documents.

      All of a sudden, today, I’m having problems where find change fails to apply the chosen paragraph style to the found text. It makes the changes in the dialog box, but does not apply the paragraph style.

      I was trying to do this with Multi-Find Change 2.0, in the latest version of InDesign CC. When it stopped working, I tried doing it manually with the Find/Change panel. Same problem in both cases.

      It is finding the text, and changing it; just won’t apply the styles.

      I’m wondering if it has a conflict with something else I’m using. Does anyone else have this problem?

    • #88626
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You sure there’s no character style sitting on top of the paragraph style?
      Also, try restarting or at least relaunching. Worst case, rebuild prefs.
      I have seen weird stuff happen over the years to find/change, just gunky memory stuff.

    • #88627
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      And, dang it, Matt, are we going to see you at The InDesign Conference this year? It’s been too long. PLUS: I just found out that Martinho Da Gloria (maker of Multi-Find) will likely be there, so you can complain to him in person about it. That alone should be worth it. :-)

    • #88630
      Matt Mayerchak
      Participant

      Thanks – I tried going through IDML, rebuilding prefs . . . but then I tried the same file on 2 other macs and had the same issues.

      I think GREP find/change doesn’t like to apply paragraph styles to strings with a \r in the middle of them. So, I had to work around that.

      Thanks for the suggestions, as always!

      As for the conference, I’ll look into it. Just been incredibly busy . . .

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