InDesign expert and CreativePro.com author Michael Murphy recently recorded the course “InDesign CS4: Learning GREP” for lynda.com.
GREP may sound like a noise you’d make after eating a large meal, but it’s actually one of your most powerful weapons against repetitive InDesign tasks.
Think of GREP (which stands for General Regular Expression Parser) as a really smart, really powerful Find/Change. With this course under your belt, you can search for and replace all sorts of formatting in InDesign files.
Exercise files come with the course, which is 3 hours and 45 minutes long. If you’re the sort who won’t buy until you try, you can listen to the following segments for free:
– What is GREP?
– Text searching vs. GREP searching
– Working with GREP and InDesign
– Using metacharacters, the building blocks of GREP
– Escaping out metacharacters
– Building with wild cards
– Understanding undocumented wild card “opposites”
– Specifying exact matches and ranges
This article was last modified on August 13, 2021
This article was first published on November 23, 2009
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