Timeline for Is it possible to search in Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign to find text based upon its color?
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| Aug 26, 2022 at 15:05 | history | bounty ended | Scott | ||
| Jun 24, 2022 at 9:54 | comment | added | Scott |
Tell me about it.. the white text still says it's black in the formatting ribbon, And the white text doesn't highlight or become visible in a selection. But f you copy/paste it to anything else or change the color, it suddenly appears. - So Word will paste a CMYK color, but just never know what it actually is! :)
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| Jun 24, 2022 at 9:49 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Scott Ah, the vagaries and bugginesses of Word! | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 9:42 | comment | added | Scott | Yup. That was it. Highlighted one white section where I knew one was.. added that color to the "More Colors" panel then selected it when using your first search method... it then found the others. .. the key.. it seems is the text appears to be actually a CMYK white...Word, of course, only uses RGB colors within its own color choosing options. So saving the CMYK white to "More Colors", then using that to search on does work. Thanks again! | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 8:26 | history | edited | Janus Bahs Jacquet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2022 at 8:25 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet |
@Scott Are you sure you’re searching for the right white in the first way? It may be that the text is actually a custom colour like #fffffe instead of the regular white ‘swatch’ so it won’t match.
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| Jun 24, 2022 at 7:58 | vote | accept | Scott | ||
| Jun 24, 2022 at 7:58 | comment | added | Scott | Thanks! Using older Word (14.7/Mac) first method didn't work for me. All the options are where you indicate, but ultimately nothing is actually ever found. I know the document contains 5 "white" instances based upon earlier troubleshooting. Second Word method works like a charm. The style pane is located a bit differently based upon app versioning, but once I found it, no issue. The INDD method.. well.. I had a stroke apparently. I should have known that, just didn't occur to me. Ideally I wanted the Word method rather than importing the Word file into INDD and then finding white. | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 7:05 | history | answered | Janus Bahs Jacquet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
