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Did you know that you can use InDesign’s Find/Change to delete text?
Say you want to delete all the text set in a particular paragraph or character style. You are using styles to format your text, right? That’s necessary for this trick to work.
Open the Find/Change window and leave both the Find What and Change To fields empty. Click in the Find Format field, and use Style Options to choose a style. Leave Change Format blank. By doing this, you’ve told InDesign find anything set in that style and replace it with nothing. Run the Find/Change and voila, all text set in that style (including inline and anchored items) is gone.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on August 11, 2014
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