How to exclude a shift-tab character from a nested character style?

Question

I have a paragraph that looks like this:

NN TitleA TitleB [alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]

Then in the paragraph style I set the first word, which is always a number to characterStyle A. After the first word I set the characterStyle B, which includes the

TitleA TitleB [alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]

part. But this is not what I need. I need characterStyle B only for

TitleA TitleB

and characterStyle C to the

[alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]

part.

Answer 1

You may assign your second Character style to be applied up to 1 Tab Character like this:

and apply your third Character style as the paragraph default (i.e. set the paragraph formatting equal to the formatting of Character Style C).

Now, to exclude the Shift+Tab character from the process, if your text boxes all have equal widths, you can use a simple Tab character - go to the Tabs panel of the paragraph style, click on the ruler, drag the newly appeared tab arrow to the right of the white area and click the Right-jusified tab button. Now a simple tab character will align your images to the right of the paragraph.