From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
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Find by location - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
Find by location
- [Instructor] When searching for text in InDesign, grip is known as greedy. And that just means that it wants to see each paragraph as a whole when searching. It basically sees each paragraph as its own entity. But to get our search more focused, we can use expressions that indicate where the expressions should be found. Luckily, most of the locations that we need are found in that secret menu. So we'll go to the secret menu and scroll down to locations. And the first one we'll take a look at is the beginning of the paragraph. And that gives us our current character, which is the beginning of the paragraph. When we build this expression we want to build it in the order it's going to appear. So because we're telling it beginning of the paragraph that's obviously where we need to start our expression. So at the beginning of the paragraph, what do we want it to find? Well, why don't we tell it to find the first 10…
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