InDesign - Insert Special Character question

[tbowat]

Does anyone know if there's a way to know if customer has used "Insert special Character" features in their document? Just looking for a heads up before we rearrange pages. Thanks

 

[kyle]

In the Find/Change dialog, click on the button to the right of the "Find what:" field, then pick "any page number." Usually by choosing the GREP tab, you can put a pipe character ("|") between parts of the expression to match any of the parts delimited by the pipe, so ~#|~x should search for page numbers and section markers in the same search. Sometimes this doesn't seem to work right, though, so you may want to add your own and make sure it finds it. GREP searching for "\x18" also find page numbers, and "\x19" section markers, and "\x18|\x19" for both.

There are other things that could mess you up, though, like indexes, chapter numbers, etc.

 

[BarbWPP]

If you drag the suspect text's box off to the pasteboard, it may change to the special character's "symbol" instead of the page #, if it is a page number you are concerned about.

 

[DCurry]

Rather than shuffle pages around in the customer's file, you could either:

1. Place the customer's ID document in a new ID document, then you can shuffle pages around safely

or

2. Export to PDF, then shuffle your PDF pages as desired or even place it into a new ID document and proceed.

or

3. Move pages around in your Run List (if you use Preps or other impo program)