Swapping order of words with GREP
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Hey guys,
I have 1,500 photos that need to be inserted into an InDesign document and each need to have the name’s below the photo. This part is easy as it’s just a simple data merge. Where I’m having difficulty is that I have been supplied the names incorrectly. For example I would need it to appear ‘John Smith’ but I have been supplied the text as ‘Smith John’.
Is there any GREP command that can select the first word of each paragraph up until the space and then send it to the end of the paragraph?
If there is it is going to save me a days work!Thanks in advance :)
Cheers,
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What about this :
F : (\w+) +(\w+)
R : $2 $1?
Otherwise you could think of a script to rename the files accordingly prior to data merging.
FWIW,
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Also note that I discussed this same process in my video title on Data Merge at lynda.com
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