Get a Grip on GREP

Perhaps you’ve already used GREP to remove double spaces or format phone numbers. Now it’s time to do more—a lot more. This session dives into smart, practical ways to use GREP to clean up messy copy, enforce formatting rules, and fix the stuff that always slips through the cracks. Whether you’re wrangling text from Word, formatting product data, or polishing long documents, you’ll learn how to use custom expressions that solve problems you didn’t know GREP could fix.

We’ll walk through a collection of real-world examples including re-arranging words—and digits, translating various markup to text styling, formatting numbers, styling a collection of names, and more! You’ll leave with repeatable solutions, inspiration for your own expressions, and a new appreciation for what GREP can do for you.

Key takeaways:

• Identify text patterns in your workflow that are perfect for GREP
• Learn how to use grouping, lookarounds, and wildcards in GREP expressions
• Apply formatting automatically with GREP Styles
• Combine multiple expressions into efficient, repeatable cleanup passes
• Build a personalized GREP toolkit to handle the messiest copy with ease