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• • February 26, 2010 at 12:20 pm #55021
    sherihy

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    I have a folder full of 90-some indd files. Can I search for a text string in this folder, or do I have to open all of the files?

    Thanks,

    Sheri

  • February 26, 2010 at 1:56 pm #55022
    Theunis De Jong

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    You can't use InDesign to scan through a folder. You also can't really rely 100% on an external utility that can scan binary files for text — the text in the file may be broken into several parts, or contain invisible characters such as discretionary hyphens or non-breaking spaces, or even visible characters such as ±, that are stored as Unicode values.

    If you really want to find that elusive document, open all in InDesign and do an “All Documents” search.

  • February 26, 2010 at 5:53 pm #55025
    Theunis De Jong

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    I just remembered — Markzware, producer of very well-thought out InDesign add-ons, released PageZephyr. Specifically designed to do what you want: search inside InDesign files (and lots of other types) for text without opening the file in InDesign first.

    https://www.markzware.com/blogs…..009/12/01/

  • March 3, 2010 at 9:02 am #55057
    sherihy

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    Thanks so much! Downloading it now, will try it out.

    Sheri

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