Tip of the Week: How to Find Tables With Find/Change
How to use Unicode to find tables in InDesign with Find/Change.
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Ever wish you could quickly locate all the tables in an InDesign document? You can with the help of Unicode and Find/Change. The trick is just to search for the Unicode character that InDesign uses to mark tables in the flow of a text frame. And that code is <0016>. Use it in the Text section of the Find/Change dialog box.

This article was last modified on July 7, 2021
This article was first published on May 1, 2018
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