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086 Building a simple grep style to change character size

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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