Join Mike Rankin for an in-depth discussion in this video Find/Change tips, part of InDesign: Creating Long Documents.
- When it comes to cleaning up problems with text,…Find-Change is your most powerful tool in InDesign.…But if you get manuscript files…from an author with lots of problems…like extra spaces and tabs and returns and the like,…it's going to take more than one Find-Change…to fix them all.…In fact, it's probably going to take several.…That's the case with this file…where someone used spaces and tabs…to center the text.…Fortunately, InDesign ships with a script…that can fix all this.…It can run multiple Find-Change operations…one right after the other,…and it's called Find-Change By List.…
You can find it in your Scripts panel in the Samples folder.…So I'll open the Scripts panel.…I'll choose Application, Samples,…JavaScript, and then scroll down…until I see Find-Change By List.…There's also a folder right underneath it…called Find-Change Support,…and inside that is a text file.…Let's right click on that and choose…Reveal In Finder or Reveal In Explorer,…and then open the text file.…This text file controls what is found and what is changed…
Author
Mike Rankin
Released
11/19/2014- Using automatic numbering for pages, sections, and chapters
- Using text variables for running headers
- Creating templates for InDesign, InCopy, and Word
- Formatting page elements with object styles
- Automating text formatting with nested styles and GREP styles
- Controlling color with swatches
- Building page elements with libraries and snippets
- Performing GREP find/changes
- Tracking changes
- Adding footnotes and indexes
- Using InDesign book files
- Preflighting documents
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome54s
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1. Long-Document Construction
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Setting up preferences4m 37s
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Using master pages8m 21s
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Using layers2m 51s
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Using text variables8m 27s
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Using section markers5m 5s
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Synchronizing text3m 18s
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2. Implementing a Workflow
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Preparing InDesign templates5m 23s
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Using Word templates5m 31s
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Using InCopy4m 36s
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3. Using Styles
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Using based-on styles5m 34s
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Using nested styles5m 49s
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Using GREP styles5m 47s
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Using object styles3m 14s
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Using tables and cell styles6m 18s
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Using swatches6m 10s
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Using Quick Apply4m 30s
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4. Building Layouts
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Placing text6m 37s
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Placing images5m 6s
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Creating metadata captions5m 31s
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Using GREP with Find/Change6m 22s
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Find/Change tips4m 28s
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5. Collaboration
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Using notes4m 30s
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Tracking changes4m 53s
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Creating a production manual4m 17s
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Creating a book map3m 31s
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6. Long-Document Infrastructure
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Creating footnotes6m 33s
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Importing footnotes6m 45s
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Creating endnotes5m 23s
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7. Indexing
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Generating an index3m 51s
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8. Working With InDesign Books
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Creating InDesign book files5m 15s
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Numbering book documents6m 3s
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Synchronizing book documents8m 20s
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Preflighting book documents4m 24s
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Outputting book documents3m 18s
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9. Outputting Long Documents
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Exporting to print PDF5m 27s
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Exporting to interactive PDF3m 19s
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Conclusion
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Next steps41s
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