Help with Grep Find Change

Shirly Oshrat Pasternak

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- February 7, 2018 at 3:13 pm #101542
  
  Shirly Oshrat Pasternak
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  Hello
  
  I need to locate headlines that are formated with the attribute Bold, and apply a character style to them. So far so good. The problem is that inside the general (running) text there are also bold formated characters. How do i grep it so that it will locate only the headlines? I tried to use the “beginning of paragraph” option under “location” but it didn’t work..
  
  Please Help :)
  Shirly
- February 7, 2018 at 3:32 pm #101543
  
  Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
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  Hi,
  
  What do you call “headline”?
- February 7, 2018 at 5:07 pm #101544
  
  David Blatner
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  You could do a grep search for ^.+$ and set it to search for bold formatting. That would find paragraphs in which ALL the text in the paragraph is bold.
- February 7, 2018 at 11:30 pm #101549
  
  Shirly Oshrat Pasternak
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  Thanx David. I tried it but it turned all of my text to bold…
  When i say “headlines” i ment this:
  chapter name
  jhd zdhfb dkfgb dkfjv zxmvjzmxv zmvz vjnvc
  jhdbfkbd sdkfjnsdmfn,fskjdfn
  
  chapter name
  jsdhfsd fkg fdkjgnd fghkjndfg skfjgn
  kjbf dkjbdsgmbsdg sdkg
  
  the chapter names are bold formated and i want to find them all and apply a character style.
  the problem is that i have words inside the body text that are also bold formated so it “catches” them to..
  
  hope i was clearer now :)
- February 8, 2018 at 3:28 am #101551
  
  Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
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  Find: (?s)^.+
  Replace by: [nothing]
  Find Format: +Bold
  Replace format: Your_Para_Style
  
  … Personal view: by security, I would run before: .+ & condition
- February 8, 2018 at 5:09 am #101552
  
  Shirly Oshrat Pasternak
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  Thank you so much Michel – It worked!!!
  
  Can you please explain to me what every part of this grep means?
  I know that ^ means beginning of paragraph. what do the others stand for?
- February 8, 2018 at 4:05 pm #101594
  
  Graham Park
  Member
  
  (?s) Single Line On
  ^ Beginning of Paragraph
  . Find any character
  + Repeat zero or more time
- February 10, 2018 at 2:22 pm #101623
  
  Shirly Oshrat Pasternak
  Member
  
  Thank you Graham!
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