Posts Tagged with ‘find/change’

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!

InDesign’s GREP cannot convert text to lowercase… but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it successfully in another program!