GREP in InDesign: Finding This or That

[@thespecialguy]

still helpful Ms. Thanks for sharing ❤️👍

[@siegroth]

Thanks to you i now understand GREP / Paragraph / Character styles, and how use them wisely: Keep up the good work

[@EricaGamet]

Thank you...glad the videos are helpful!

[@Artistram3d1]

Great videos, wish I found them years ago. Thank You!

[@EricaGamet]

Glad you like them! I have some more GREP videos on the CreativePro channel (KZbin.com/CreativePro).

[@lfcorullon]

Your explanations are awesome. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@EricaGamet]

+lfcorullon Well, I leave the techy explanations to the other guys! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. Thanks for watching!

[@tekilsahis]

GREAT, THANKS

[@tudoeraldo]

you just saved my life. thank you so much!

[@abdullahkamilakman]

Thank you Erica

[@UlyssesStudios]

Thank you so much!

[@EricaGamet]

You're quite welcome!

[@silvertoadzzz]

Your videos are excellent; thanks!

[@EricaGamet]

Thank you...glad you liked them!

[@paulamongelos5117]

Thank you sooooo much!

[@EricaGamet]

Sure thing!

[@MegaRampro]

very good tutorial

[@EricaGamet]

Glad you liked it!

[@mordechailewis7201]

Thank you for this tip 5:39!

[@mohammedshahidrahman8276]

For some reason I want footnote text in normal numbers and reference (the one which comes at the bottom side) in roman numerals. How can it be done, grep, script? is there any script for that? I tried alot to do that in indesign but in vain.

[@EricaGamet]

Sorry I missed this. For the future, here is how you can do it. Put the normal (arabic) numbers in the footnote reference (in the main text). Set your footnote paragraph style to have Roman numerals (set with # then a tab). To delete the normal numbers from the footnote at the bottom, run a GREP find/change. Search by the footnote para style: Find: ~F\t

[@BlueskyNewsNet]

like ur presentation,, wish to be ur student Ms.

[@skiboltskie]

Hi. Are you putting up InDesign content somewhere else?

[@EricaGamet]

I have a lot of videos on the CretivePro KZbin channel. KZbin.com/CreativePro I haven’t had much time to post here, but there is a lot of ID content over there! Thanks for watching!

[@Fabitalism]

Is there a difference in "Text" and "Grep" in the find and replace window? Because you can do everything in both as far as I see it ...

[@EricaGamet]

In the Text tab, you're looking for specific text. For instance, you might search for the specific number of 1234... but in the GREP tab you can search for ANY 4-digit number, even if you don't know what it is. So you would search for \d{4}. So lots of wildcards, and search based on position, etc. In Text you're looking for specific text and in GREP you're looking for patterns of text.

[@prakashmitra4306]

I have Uppercase Roman Numerals followed by a carriage return all over the document inside several chapters. Please could you suggest a GREP for selecting these. Thanks.

[@EricaGamet]

\u+ and it depends what you want to do with it.

[@mike_edwards_squarcles]

Another great one. I hope that there will be a find this NOT that video as well.

[@EricaGamet]

Oooh...I'll add that to my list for upcoming videos. I'm on a summer hiatus right now, as I am traveling to conferences, etc. But there is definitely more GREP goodness on the way!

[@rcdabral7494]

WOW!!

[@mukarimu]

Great video. watched and subscribed. Question. I have a variable on my Master-Pages that calls every CHAPTER TITLE (that is all in Upper case) with an intention to run as a header on every page of a particular chapter. When its called into the running header, it should be Title Case. Question is, how do I avoid conjunctions like (Of, In, And, At, The, From....) being Title case? for example [FIND AND STYLE SEVERAL SPECIFIC WORDS OR PHRASES IN INDESIGN] changes to [Find And Style Several Specific Words Or Phrases In Indesign] but I want [Find and Style Several Specific Words or Phrases in Indesign] Hope am clear.

[@EricaGamet]

That totally makes sense...you might see if Peter Kahrel's Title Case script (basically an add-on for the find/change dialog box) would be of any help: www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/grep_change_case.html

[@nasimsarkar]

Now I have some 'grep' over GREP. :-) Thanks a lot.

[@EricaGamet]

Haha! Good one! 👍🏼

[@deepakgola8547]

U r Genius

[@sofiasurreal.]

Hi Erica, thanks for the useful video! I have a bit of text I would like to change into a graphic element, so 'yes' changes to a green bar, and 'no' a yellow one. So far, its only been able to work by changing to clipboard contents. Is there a way to perhaps add the graphic as a symbol that comes up in the panel, or otherwise call it?

[@EricaGamet]

Clipboard contents is the easiest way. There is a way using a script called IndyFont: www.indiscripts.com/post/2019/07/indesign-cc2019-macOS-hotfix. It lets you create a one-character font from a vector object. So you would search on the word "yes" and have it change to the key you set for the bar in the font you create. You'd have to do one search for yes and one for no. There is also a script that changes word to pictures, which also might work: www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/2014/06/24/peoples-choice-indesign-script-pepcon-2014-replace-words-images-vice-versa/

[@sra6506]

thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@PuKoh]

why would any dislike this video?? people are stupid

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