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InDesign CS4: Learning GREP

InDesign CS4: Learning GREP

with Michael Murphy



InDesign CS4: Learning GREP decodes the language of GREP for InDesign users. It shows how this versatile tool can be used for describing text, which can speed up or automate everyday formatting tasks. InDesign expert and graphic designer Michael Murphy introduces the basic concepts of GREP, and shows how to build powerful expressions using metacharacters. Michael also explores many of the little-known features of GREP, explaining how GREP styles and Find/Change can be used to rearrange data and dynamically format text. Exercise files accompany this course.
Topics include:
  • Using metacharacters, the building blocks of GREP
  • Describing text that may not exist with zero operators
  • Applying multiple character styles to the same text with GREP styles
  • Eliminating orphaned words at the ends of paragraphs
  • Preserving and recalling subexpressions
  • Customizing a GREP-based text cleanup script for long documents

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author
Michael Murphy
subject
Design, Workflow
software
InDesign CS4
level
Intermediate
duration
3h 45m
released
Nov 18, 2009

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