If you’re trying to figure out how to use CS3’s new Find/Change with GREP feature, and have found the online help a bit, um, unhelpful, you’re going to love this.
Peter Kahrel’s GREP in InDesign CS3 ($9.99 US) just came out from O’Reilly. You can purchase and download the 47-page PDF directly from O’Reilly’s web site by following the link. That’s what I did a couple days ago, and now that I finally understand what a “Look Behind” is, I’ve already saved at least four hours of tedious hunting and pecking production work on a project I’m working on this weekend.
GREP in InDesign CS3 TOC:
- GREP by Example
- Basics
- Wildcards
- Locations
- Repeat: Sequences of Characters
- Referring to Wildcards: Back-Referencing
- Finding Formatted Text
- Replacing with Wildcards
- Splitting Up Complex Expressions
- Applying Styles with GREP
- Look Ahead
- Look Behind You
- Look Around
- Advanced Techniques
- Chaining Expressions
- Single-line and Multiline Modes
- Troubleshooting
- Quick Reference
I wish the book also had a Table of Examples so I could easily copy and paste them into this post! Throughout the book, Peter steps through numerous real-life Find/Change routines to show how the GREP topic under discussion might be used, and I found them just as valuable as the explanatory content.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on November 25, 2007
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