0

I'm trying to fit email addresses in a staff directory and wish to have the emails break on @ in order to have them look more consistent. I'm importing the email addresses via a data merge as well which may complicate matters.

Example of what I want:
John.Doe
@email.com

I've tried adding a paragraph style with the following Grep function but no luck:

<S+@S+>

An image where the email is broken after the @ symbol

An image where the email is broken at the @ symbol

Improve this question
2
  • Show an example of what you want to achieve. What do you mean by "break"? Edit your question and post a picture.
    – lmlmlm
    Commented Mar 2 at 10:40
  • This has been done.
    – Matthew Johnson
    Commented Mar 3 at 22:59

2 Answers 2

Reset to default
1

This is technical and may or not work with your particular setup, but you can try this after the data merge stage.

Find this :

  • @(\w+\.[\l\u]{3})

And replace with this :

  • \n@$1

enter image description here

Improve this answer
1

The answer of Lucian is great.

I am not sure what you exactly would like to achieve, but if you want to keep the @ in place and move all that follows to the lower line (just as in your screenshot), you may precede \n by the @ sign in the "Change to" field:

Find What: @(\w+\.[\w]{2,3})

Change to: @\n$1

Or:

Find What: \w+@\K(\w+\.[\w]{2,3})

Change to: \n$1

Otherwise please accept the answer of Lucian if it is satisfactory to you or provide some feedback. Thank you.

Improve this answer

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our privacy policy.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.