Our friend Rudi Warttmann originally wrote up this technique for the German-language Publishing Blog.ch. He graciously gave us permission to adapt his blog post (in English) here.
InDesign doesn’t provide a built-in way to search for tables within a document. However, since tables always are contained as inline graphics within a parent “character” of Unicode 0016, they can be found with a simple Find/Change. Just open the Find/Change dialog box, enter <0016> in the Find what field, and click the Find Next button.
Thanks for the great tip Rudi!
Find tables in InDesign
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on March 2, 2017
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Great tip!
But after you find a table, how do you make a change, say to a table style?
I like your Blog. It’s a useful information about advantage of tables. Thanks for sharing the post.
WOW!! Thanks for the really great tip!!
Great, I was looking for that!!! Thanks!
Does exist some code even for InLine anchor objects?
of course there is – ^a
you can find it under find what: >Markers>Anchored object Marker
But if you choose a command “Change All” something strange happens. Some ghost lines appear in place of the tables – the cursor catches them, but you can not select them automatically. You have to delete them manually.
Very helpful when you have to pick-up another designer’s InDesign document and you have no idea how they assembled the layout.
Strangely InDesign can only find it in TEXT mode. There is no match in GREP mode using \x{0016}
I admit, I missed it too. I tried and it worked.
However, the info panel didn’t display the unicode value for the table nor I was able to load the selected glyph in the Find/Change.
Any clues, where and how you come to know the unicode value for a table.
Oh my GOD, I’ve been looking for something like that for ages. Thank you!