: Automatically adding a sequence of characters Is there any way of adding specific sequences of characters at the start and/or end of every instance of a determined paragraph style? I could do

@Murphy569

I don't have any help for similar-to ::after functionality, but the following should work for ::before.

Though it likely wasn't intended for this purpose, you can just customize a numbered list to accomplish this. Just choose List Type: Numbers, and in the Numbering Style section, change Number: to desired string sequence of characters.



At any time, you can go back in to the Paragraph Style, and update that Number field to change it throughout.

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@Hamm6457569

You can do this with text variables: Type > Text Variables.

In this case, you'd select Custom Text as the variable type when you define them, and insert the appropriate text. Any time you change the text in the variable definition, it will change in the layout.

One caveat: a variable looks like text, but it is actually a single character. That means you can't nest character styles inside a variable, and there is no such thing as a line break. If you need either of these, then you'll have to use a script.

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