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077 The secrets of formatting objects with Find/Change

077 The secrets of formatting objects with Find/Change - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

077 The secrets of formatting objects with Find/Change

I want to talk about an often-neglected dialog box, and that is Object Find/Change, which you will find if you go to the Edit menu, go down to Find/Change and we choose Object. Now what I found is that a lot of people spend a lot of time proofing printouts, going over them with a fine-tooth comb in a loop when instead they could just use Object Find Change to fix a lot of problems. For example, here we are looking at a few pages from a student catalog--and I will scroll through here--and you can see it's a pretty busy layout. Let's say that one of the things you want to make sure is that none of the text frames have a stroke. So if I select text frame here, and I look in my Control panel, I can see it has no stroke, 0, and this one is 0 and this one is 0, so I am always looking here and figuring, okay, that's fine. So then I send it off to the printer, or I create a PDF for downloading, not realizing that there is a wayward text frame somewhere else that has a 1-point stroke. Now of…

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