Insert character string before any text with a specific character style
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I am working on a membership directory with thousands of email addresses. I want to place a space-em dash-space before every email address formatted with a specific Character Style. Unfortunately, all the text was supplied to me as shown in the following example:
Don Abbott, Computer Graphics Spec. (GIS), [email protected]
I have applied a Character Style to the email addresses using a GREP string I got off your forum (thanks!). Now I would like to be able to global add an em dash so the final result looks like this:
Don Abbott, Computer Graphics Spec. (GIS) — [email protected]
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks!
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Well, grep styles can’t change a comma into an em dash. I think it’s probably better just to search for the comma and replace it with the space-em-dash-space (using Find/Change). The tricky part is to find just the commas you want to change, of course. Are they always after (GIS) or always after a parenthesis or something?
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