From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
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What is GREP? - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
What is GREP?
- [Instructor] Grep, what is it? What does it stand for? What does it do? Well, first of all, grep is an acronym, and we're not going to really worry about what the acronym stands for, except for the R and the E, which stand for regular expressions. This is a term you may hear used elsewhere. At its very basic, grep in InDesign is finding patterns of text and then it allows us to do something to that text that we find. We can find a pattern of text in our document and then style it in such a way based on the fact that it fits that pattern. But let's actually look at grep in action. That way we can actually see what a grep does for us. First of all, grep lives in two places in InDesign, in the fine change dialog box, and also in paragraph styles. There are different reasons and pros and cons to each, and we'll talk about those in just a little while. So on this page, I have a lot of numbers. If you live in North America…
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