From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
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How to search - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
How to search
- [Instructor] I used to find change dialogue box to build all of my expressions, even if they're going to eventually end up in a paragraph style. The reason for this is that I can build it and see the results immediately. When I'm actually conducting a search with the fine change dialogue box, there's a few things that I like to make sure I do. And one of them is that I like to keep my search very localized. So for instance, if I were running that phone number search, I would select this frame and then choose in the search field to only search by the story. And that's because there might be text on another page that fits the pattern, but if I'm not seeing it, I might not realize that I've actually changed it. So on this frame, on the story, I'm going to go ahead and run that phone number search, and then I'm just going to tell it change all, and it changes everything inside that frame. But the second number doesn't…
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