Posts Tagged with ‘find/change’

You’ve copied a bunch of numbered paragraphs from a web page and now you want to use automatic numbering instead. Here’s how to clean up the mess!

Everyone knows how to use find/change to replace text, but what if you want to delete some text?

What if you had to edit 900 hyperlinks in 5 minutes? Or make other huge changes to your document quickly?

The ability to use GREP in a Find/Change is pretty sweet, but there’s at least one limitation that could leave a bad taste in your mouth.

You’re given a file that is full of extra paragraph returns. How can you remove them quickly… and add correct spacing instead!

InDesign offers very fine grained control over find/change, including which sorts of characters you want it to find.

A simple introduction to grouping GREP expressions shows how easy it is to manipulate found text in all sorts of time-saving ways.

Here are few suggestions to help you format lots of prices in your next layout.

Joe needs to convert all his captions in the form LastName_FirstName.jpg into “FirstName LastName.” It’s way easier than you’d think.

I want to change all the paragraphs after a heading to have no indent… fortunately, this script lets you target paragraph style pairs!