search for text + paragraph Style

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#1

I have different titles with same paragraph Style
Is it possible to search for a specific text with that paragraph style?
At the moment I can search only for text OR for generic paragraph styles...

#2

The AltSearch extension http://bit.ly/2ytarVR should do what you want.

#3

You can do something of the sort:
o Search for the required paragraph style but click Find All. This selects all text with that paragraph style.
o With the results still selected, now search for the required text but with the "Current selection only" option ticked.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#4

Dave, that extension did it!
Thank you.

#5

Brian, I tried that: it selects correctly all the styled text, but then it
does not find any text in the selection...

#6

Without being able to look over your shoulder, I cannot guess what you are doing wrong. Once you have found and selected the styled text, and without disturbing the (multiple) selection, searching for text (but no longer for styles) with the "Current selection only" option ticked has to work.

Brian Barker

#7

I found out what it was:
when I selected "current selection only" , then I pressed "find next",
instead it must be pressed again "Find all"! That did it.

BUT

I used Find next because I want to search all the par styles with that text,
instead if I press Find all, it selects ALL the par styles that has that
text, but I can't reach all of them, how I reach the 3rd one for example,
maybe dozens pages after?

This is not a perfect search like the other working method suggested. With
the extension, you can press find next and it will select only the text with
the par styles + all next occurrences one at a time!

#8

Indeed so - which is why I prefixed my original suggestion by saying that this was "something of the sort".

Brian Barker