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012 Three cool GREP styles everyone can use - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
012 Three cool GREP styles everyone can use
Anne-Marie Concepcion: One of the most powerful and underutilized features of Adobe InDesign is GREP styles. I want to show you three cool GREP styles that everyone can do. This is really cool stuff. Let me show you. For example, you may have seen the word grep in Find Change, which it's been around in Find Change since I think CS2 or CS3, and GREP Find Change lets you find text based on a pattern. So instead of just a straight text you can actually say find any digits that's repeated a bunch of times or that you know falls at the beginning or end of a paragraph that kind of thing. And with the GREP Find Change you cannot just find text based on that matching pattern, but then you can change it. You can add characters before or after, you can flip around parts of it, like you can changed cents to dollars or put the last name in front of a first name, and of course you can find based on format or change the format of found text. So that kind of GREP is slightly different than what I…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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