Using GREP with Find/Change

- Oh if only all the text…we ever had to place into InDesign…were structured and formatted perfectly.…If only there were no random extra spaces…or returns and nothing missing…or out of order.…Well, that's a nice dream but in real life…you're going to have to be ready…to deal with all kind of little problems…in text manuscript that you…have to clean up.…Fortunately, you can fix all those problems…with an amazing find/change option called GREP.…In an earlier movie we looked at…using GREP's styles to automatically apply…formatting to text based on patterns in that text.…

Another great use for GREP in InDesign…is to clean up problems in text content.…Whenever you're confronted…with a manuscript that has extra returns…or spaces or things that are…in the wrong sequence, you should…immediately think about GREP.…In fact you don't even need…to figure out how to construct…GREP expressions for those…common text cleanups because…a lot of them are already in InDesign.…Here I have some place text…and it has a bunch of extra returns…