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May 20, 2020 at 1:23 pm #1251634
David Blatner
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Stan, I encourage you to check out some of the resources on this page for GREP help:
https://indesignsecrets.com/resources/grep

In general, here’s the rule: If you put something in parentheses in the Find What, then you can use it in the Replace With.

For example, let’s say I search for (\d\d)(\d\d) and replace it with $2-$1. And my text includes 1234. After the find/change the text will read 34-12

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