From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
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Found text - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
Found text
- [Instructor] Up until now we've mostly just been finding the expressions. Now it's time to do something with that text. Since we're still working in the Find Change dialog box we can do things like add, delete, rearrange, and otherwise style the text that we find with our expressions. In the previous lesson, we found the word that came right before any question mark, so let's go ahead and style that text by adding a color to it. I've set up a character style just called Red and we're going to apply that character style to the text that we find. Going to make sure I have just this story selected and I'm searching only this story, and I'm going to tell it that I want to find any word character one or more times when it comes before a question mark. So that's a positive look ahead to a question mark. And let's actually zoom in so we can see what we're doing, here. Backslash question mark. So now, when I say find next, it finds…
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