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060 Automating Find/Change with the Find/ChangeByList script - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
060 Automating Find/Change with the Find/ChangeByList script
You know face it, a lot of what we do in InDesign is tedious monkey work, you know, especially when we are having to clean up files that other people give us. I want to show you how there is a free script that comes with InDesign that can save you so much time in doing this kind of monkey work and even if you're an old, jaded InDesign user who knows all about this script, I think you're going to learn couple of new tricks that you didn't know before. So let's start by importing a typical Word document that an editor might give me for formatting in my layout. Now this layout right now is just one-page document. It's empty. I do have some starter Paragraph and Character Styles. Now we're going to go to File > Place and find this document. I'm going to turn on Show Import Options because we're going to remove the Styles and Formatting, but preserve local overrides, which is how I recommend you import all of your Word documents unless you already have a very slick and working…
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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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