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362 Find/Change to add text to many table cells

362 Find/Change to add text to many table cells - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

362 Find/Change to add text to many table cells

- [Instructor] I have a table here, and you can see that some of the cells have numbers in them, and some are empty, they're blank, and I want to put a dollar sign before all the text inside the ones that have numbers, but not the ones that are empty. For those, I want to insert an em dash, just to indicate that they're supposed to be blank. Now, of course, if this were just a short table, I could do this manually in about a minute or two, but look, this is actually several hundred rows long. It still doesn't fit in this frame. So, for something like this, you want to use a grep find and change. To do that, I'm going to open the Find/Change dialog box by pressing Command + F on the Mac or Control + F on Windows. Then, let's move this over to the side so I can see what I'm doing better, and I want to make sure that I have the GREP tab selected inside that Find/Change dialog box. Next, I'm going to double-click inside one of these cells just to switch to the type tool and place the…

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