Tip of the Week: How to Find Tables With Find/Change

How to use Unicode to find tables in InDesign with Find/Change.

Mike Rankin Mike Rankin

This InDesign tip on How to Find Tables With Find/Change was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on April 26, 2018.

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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.

find tables in InDesign with Unicode character in Find/Change

This way, you could instantly change the position of any/all tables, copy them for use elsewhere, locate them for reference, manual editing, etc. Sadly, I don’t think there’s a way to use the same Unicode value in a GREP Find/Change, but I’d love to be proved wrong.
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This article was last modified on July 7, 2021

This article was first published on May 1, 2018

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