Format PART of a specific word in InDesign

Question

There's a unique, made-up word in a book I am editing. I need to italicize the first three letters of this word every time it occurs.

So far I have determined that GREP styles are my best shot at automatically formatting this word, but I have not been able to create a GREP string that works. Any help would be welcome!

Edit:

I managed to get a working GREP query, but this only works for me in the Find/Change dialog. I believe that these GREP strings need to be written a little differently depending on where they are used in the program...

By the way, the specific word I am looking for is youniverse. I need you to always be italicized.

My current working Find/Change GREP query is:

you(?=niverse)

This is a basic way to get the result I am looking for. Ideally this would be a GREP Style in my main paragraph style so I could procedurally apply this style every time the word occurs

Answer 1

If you need to match the first "Dan" of DankFarrik use this in your GREP search and apply appropriate character style:

(Dan|DankFarrik)

You can also try this one

((Dan)(?=kFarrik))