It’s hard to overstate the power that GREP can give you in InDesign. From fixing manuscript problems, to improving typography, to applying automatic formatting, GREP can get seemingly impossible jobs done in a flash. But GREP is also intimidating with its arcane and complex expressions that look like just so much gibberish to a newbie. That’s why you need a guide like David Blatner to help you get started with GREP, in his Lynda.com course, InDesign: 10 Things to Know About GREP.
Here’s the official description:
With its ability to find and replace character patterns in documents, GREP helps designers and editors work quickly and efficiently. Over the course of InDesign: 10 Things to Know About GREP, David Blatner demonstrates how to use GREP codes to improve workflow. He teaches GREP search techniques using patterns of numbers or letters or strings of words. David even shows how to use text patterns within a document. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
- Using pre-built find/change expressions
- Reordering names in an exported list from a database
- Working with GREP and fonts
- Establishing character formats with GREP style
- Using escape characters to customize code
- Accessing the fly-out menus to specify search commands
- Applying global conditions using GREP
In the free movie below, David introduces the basic ideas of using GREP codes to find text. Check it out!
Using codes to find text
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Using GREP in the Find/Change dialog box
Using GREP styles
Making text disappear
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on November 11, 2016
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