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hi elpy zee.

sorry.. i was away for a week

i tried the code you have suggested and sorry it doesnt work in the way i wanted it...i think you had understood the logic a bit...i will try to explain it more..

imagine i have a row like this

Investments           9905%             
----- 
 For 9905%
i need to read the values charactery by character ie "9" "9" "0" "5" "%" and 
check whether its a number or not
if its a number then read next character...loop
if its not a number then check that charcter with the alignon character and highlight if it doesnt match
 

initiall 9 is checked then
9 is checked then
0 is checked then
5 is checked
then % is checked (here this is not a number) check whether % is present in alignon if its not then highlight the word in red color.

example 2
Sales                      (100)(a)
first check (
then 1 is checked
then 0 is checked
then 0 is checked
then ) is checked -- ")"  is the character next to numeric digit then check ")" is present in alignon, highlight if its not present.

hope..i explained at the best.. waiting for your suggestions and let me know if you need more information

thanks,smrkeyan

 

Hi, smrkeyan, I'm having trouble finding time for this right now, and now I will be away from my computer until next week. I will try and do something when I get back, but even then it won't be before the first weekend in October. If I was a better scripter I could just write something quickly, but the truth is I'm pretty much a beginner and it takes me some time to make something that works.

I'm a new forum member, and found this post which seems like it might be a starting point for a problem I'm trying to solve. I'm working with largish (64-pg) Quark 8 documents which contain up to 100+ eps image files which I need to swap out for pdfs. The pdf files are identically named to the eps files, except for the extension. I thought that I could maybe export the documents as Express tags (or maybe Xtags?), then edit that doc, searching ".eps" and replacing with ".pdf.", then reimport into Quark and not have to manually import each picture 1 at a time. So the 1st problem I encounter is that all of the text & picture boxes have to be selected to export as Xpress tags, and they're all unlinked. It seems like your script here might be adapted to select all of the boxes in my document. Do you (or anyone else) think you can help me with this? Or is there a better way to approach a global image swap that I could use?

Thanks so much! tia

If you want to change the encoding of the xtag to "Windows Latin" or some other encoding how would the syntax go.