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086 Building a simple grep style to change character size - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
086 Building a simple grep style to change character size
Welcome to another installment of InDesign secrets. Today I want to talk about adjusting the size of certain characters in your text. For example, I love this font, but if I zoom in here on this text, you can see this m dash just way too wide. Don't like that. I'd like to make it narrower. To fix that, I'm going to use something called Grep Styles, which a lot of people are afraid of because it sometimes uses scary codes, but don't fret. This is going to be really easy. I'm going to switch the paragraph styles, and then double-click on this text frame to switch to the Type tool. That shows me that this paragraph style is in body text. If I double-click on that and look at the style options, I can jump over here to the Grep Style pane and add a new Grep Style which is going to make that m dash narrower. Let's see how you do it. Click New Grep Style, Then type in the code for an m dash. Now you may not know what the code for that m dash is. That's okay, we'll delete the code that's…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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