Who is the resident GREP style expert? I'm looking for a code that will change all of the words before "of" to bold, but I haven't been able to make it work. I feel like GREP styles should be able to do this, but I can't figure out how. Any help? Also, I hope this is the right place for this post.

it'd help if you'd give an example and how you'd want it to change?

I finally figured it out!

But to answer your question, Bogart, I have a list of names of people and where they are from. They want the names bolded but nothing else. So we have "Name M. Name of Somewhere, AW." I was trying to figure out a GREP style that would change all the characters before " of " to bold. This is what I came up with: .+(?=( of ))

Feel free to let me know if you have a better solution.

no, fraid I don't! Where are you using this GREP anyway?

Note, I am NOT the resident GREP expert

LoL! In InDesign. Magazine layout.

The InDesign overlords tend to reside in the Design section afaik. They are weird like that

Ah. Thanks, Mr. Infinitely Prolonged.