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• • September 7, 2015 at 6:45 pm #77938
    Patti Moran

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    Hi there,

    I made the mistake of using ^TAB as placeholder text with which to do a later find/change.

    Now I realize that InDesign can’t find that character string, probably because it uses the carat ^ symbol in formatting commands and it doesn’t recognize ^TAB

    I tried a simple find/change in both the Find/Change text tab and the Find/Change GREP Box and it doesn’t find that character combo. I admit I’m unfamiliar with GREP, so I probably did that one wrong.

    Can anyone give me some advice as to how I can do a find/change by searching for that ^TAB text string? Actually, the full text string I want to find is ^TAB^t and replace it with nothing…so in other words I want to delete it.

    I’d do this manually, but there are about 400 instances of it in my document!

    Thanks!

  • September 7, 2015 at 7:00 pm #77939
    Patti Moran

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    I found a solution!

    I found that I could do a find/change on JUST the carat ^ so I got rid of all of those first, and then I was able to do a find/change on the TAB^t that remained.

    Phew! That would have been a lot of work manually…there turned out to be more than 1200 of them!

    P

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