Find and replace

[robinp]

When inserting text into a document, often bullets get included as part of the text rather than as a style attribute. This is normal and to be expected.

I have tried to use 'find and replace' to delete them out of a long bullet list. Unfortunately find and replace doesn't seem to work unless there is something entered into the 'replace with' box. What if I want to replace with nothing?

Also, doing command+F seems to cause a crash unless working within a text frame.

[Old Bruce]

The way I do this is to look at the results of the find operation and see what is before and/or after the bullet. For instance say the results are mostly Bullet <space> Then in the replace field i put the <space> in and hit replace all. Sometimes it'll be a Tab after or before or a paragraph or line return. Without grep we have to improvise.

[robinp]

13 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

The way I do this is to look at the results of the find operation and see what is before and/or after the bullet. For instance say the results are mostly Bullet <space> Then in the replace field i put the <space> in and hit replace all. Sometimes it'll be a Tab after or before or a paragraph or line return. Without grep we have to improvise.

Yeah, I thought of that but that then means I still have to go through deleting the spaces or tabs. Not really any easier than just deleting the bullets and spaces manually. 

[Old Bruce]

Quite often it is a true case of six of one or a half dozen of the other.

I feel your pain. [not-literally emoticon]

[Pauls]

We might have a fix for this in the beta after .133