Posts Tagged with ‘GREP’

Learn GREP and Explore Free Scripts at Lynda.com (two new titles)

April 30 2009 • 11:02 AM

Hear ye, hear ye! Two new Blatner titles from Lynda.com explore GREP and free InDesign scripts!

Quick GREP To Superscript Ordinals

April 30 2009 • 10:46 AM

Need to format all your ordinals (such as “1st” and “2nd”) properly? This easy GREP expression should do the trick!

InDesignSecrets Videocast #1: Line Styles and GREP Styles

April 9 2009 • 12:23 PM

Come watch our very first video podcast

Adventures in GREPland

March 25 2009 • 7:11 AM

Preview GREP styles to test and compare expressions (and maybe reduce frustration) as you explore the mysteries of GREP.

Convert Text to Lowercase with a GREP Utility

March 16 2009 • 9:15 AM

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

Indexing Case Sensitive Words

January 29 2009 • 9:48 AM

Indexing is a painful word, close to root canal in my opinion. I have been lucky enough in my life to never have had to personally create an entire index. While I have worked on long publications, someone else did the dirty work and supplied the index for me. Despite my hesitations with indexing, it [...]

Insert a Special Character with GREP Styles

January 26 2009 • 9:25 AM

David’s back with yet another fun and adventurous grep styles trick.

5 Cool Things You Can Do with GREP Styles

December 12 2008 • 12:14 PM

I love GREP Styles in CS4. Here are 10 (or more) tips for how you can use them to format text in your document quickly.

When Character Styles Collide

December 10 2008 • 8:49 PM

One paragraph style can apply a whole bunch of character styles to the same range of text. But how do you know which one will prevail when there’s a conflict?