GREP in InDesign: An InDesignSecrets Guide

Get a grip on GREP, the key to simplifying and streamlining text-heavy work in Adobe InDesign! This is an approachable and friendly reference by one of the world's pre-eminent InDesign scripting and automation experts, Peter Kahrel. Perhaps you’ve seen the GREP tab in Find/Change, and the GREP Style panel in Paragraph Style Options, and wondered, what is it exactly, and why would I use it, and how? Or perhaps you've done a few simple GREP find/change routines, and would like to learn what else is possible that you've been missing? GREP in InDesign is your answer. Armed with this wonderful guide full of real-world examples of using GREP to fix and format text in InDesign, you can learn the ins and outs of this powerful tool. It starts out with the basics — what’s the difference between Text and GREP Find/Change? How do I use GREP to find patterns of text (e.g., 4-digit years, any text between parentheses) and how do I apply formatting to that, or change what it found, throughout the document? Author Peter Kahrel continues with in-depth, more complicated examples, such as swapping first and last names in lists, chaining GREP queries, and using wildcards, lookarounds, and locations in your searches.At the end of the book you'll find a useful Troubleshooting chapter with the most common GREP problems and their fixes, and a Reference section that lists all the Character classes you can use and a GREP Code dictionary.GREP in InDesign is an essential resource for all InDesign-using professionals!