Simple GREP help needed – Style first Word in Paragraph

Scott Croft

Tagged: first line of paragraph style

This topic has 6 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 10 months ago by Jamie Hinojosa.

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- July 8, 2015 at 4:53 am #76457
  
  Scott Croft
  Member
  
  Hi All
  
  I’m new to GREP though I’ve been using InDesign for 5 years or so. I’ve never had call to use scripting like this before but with a new line manager having come along, I’m in need of a, hopefully, simple script.
  
  What I’m trying to achieve is a for InDesign to automatically apply a style to the whole first word of the first paragraph of a section of text but I have no idea where to start really, if anyone can help me I would be very grateful.
  
  Thanks
  
  Valve
- July 8, 2015 at 5:52 am #76458
  
  Loic Aigon
  Member
  
  Hi,
  
  Why not starting by not scripting it and use nested styles inside a paragraph style ?
  
  Loic
- July 8, 2015 at 6:21 am #76459
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  I agree that Nested Styles are much easier to use.
  https://creativepro.com/nested-versus-next.php
- July 8, 2015 at 9:07 am #76462
  
  Scott Croft
  Member
  
  I’m open to that..though Again it’s not something I’ve used before so any tips on how to achieve it would be most welcome! :)
- July 12, 2015 at 1:39 am #76522
  
  Masood Ahmad
  Participant
  
  Try any of these:
  
  GREP styles under the paragraph style:
  
  Apply Style: your character style
  to text: ^\w+
  
  OR
  
  Nested Styles under the paragraph style:
  
  • Click on the ‘New Nested Style’ button
  • Select the character style from the first drop down list.
  • Select ‘Through’ or ‘Upto’
  • Type in ‘1’
  • Select ‘Words’
  
  Hope this is all you need :)
- July 25, 2015 at 5:12 am #76878
  
  Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
  Participant
  
  Hi, the problem with this question is: What is the first word?
  
  What about: New York, The White House, Water-polo, …
  
  So, I prefer to use a grep style keeping the possibility to manually insert a non-joiner to include this kind of complex word.
  
  ^.+~j|[\w-]+
  
  ;-)
- May 23, 2017 at 9:32 am #94818
  
  Jamie Hinojosa
  Member
  
  I was looking for a way just to style the first line of every paragraph for a directory that I’m putting together.
  I found it was easy to use “nested line styles” in the paragraph styles.
  
  Choose a “new line style” select the character style you want to use and then input the number of lines you want to assign the character style too.
  
  Hope this helps someone else out there.
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