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GREP of the Month: Negating Characters

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Learn how to exclude a single character (or a range of them) with these handy GREP expressions.

InDesign Magazine issue 88: The InDesign Script-o-pedia
This article appeared in Issue 88 of InDesign Magazine.

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Learning how to use the absence or negation of a certain character as a search criterion will give you a powerful way of finding what you want. And you can use two different expressions for this for maximum flexibility.

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Bart Van de Wiele is a LinkedIn Learning author and public speaker currently working as a Principal Solutions Consultant at Adobe. Visit his website at bartvdw.com.
  • MANIDURAI M says:

    i wan find the inside parenthesis content in a paragraph one by one How?

  • Obi-wan Kenobi says:

    Humm! ;-)

    (^/)

  • Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan says:

    How to exclude certain CharacterStyles in the search?

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