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Using regular expressions

Using regular expressions - Publisher Tutorial

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Using regular expressions

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how to use regular expressions in Affinity Publisher's Find and Replace feature. Using regular expressions gives you superpowers when using find and replace. You can include several different kinds of wild cards to find any number of characters, spaces, numbers and so on. You can search for text that appears before or after other terms. You can target locations, like the start or end of a paragraph. And you can make certain characters optional so they don't have to be there in order for the rest of the expression to be matched. But all that power comes with a bit of a learning curve. And while Publishers supports regular expressions in find and replace, there's nothing to help you learn them within the application itself. It's also way beyond the scope of this course. So, if you want to learn more about using regular expressions, you can search the linked in Learning Library to find…

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