: How can I use GREP to find all text between bullet and equals sign in bullet list in InDesign? I have a bulleted list with several entries, it's a list of keyboard shortcuts, similar to the

@Sims5801359

.+=
this expression will select all text from the beginning of a line of text up to the equal sign
Then set a character style to format the text as required.
If the Bullets uses a Paragraph Style independent of other text in the document and the bullets are in the style then set a Character Style for the bullet point,
This means the text formatted with GREP and the bullet can have different character styles

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@Goswami567

Well, non of the above seemed to work, likely due to how InDesign does bullets, but this

^(.*)(?==)


seemed to work for what I needed. Thanks for helping though!

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@Gail6891361

If you used e.g. a hyphen as the bullet, the expression would probably match as you desire. The bullet is a unicode (hex U+2022) or Ansi (149; hex 95), so try replacing the bullet glyph with x{95} in your regular expression.

EDIT:
help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSFB3603CC-8D84-48d8-9F77-F3E0644CB0B6a.html
I see that the bullet is ~8 when working with regular expressions.

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@Angela777

If you use tabs for the spaces, this would work:

t(s|.*)t


It would include the first tab, followed by all characters until the next tab.

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