From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
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Other expressions, part 1 - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
Other expressions, part 1
- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to look at a few other key grep expressions that will come in handy. In this example, I have some titles that are in quotation marks. I'd really like them to be italicized. I've created a character style for italic, but I need to create a grep expression that will not only italicize the titles, but also remove the quoted text from those titles. We'll need to create some sub-expressions, and of course we need to do it in the Fine/Change dialogue box because it will be removing some of the found text. So I'm going to make sure that my story is selected, and that I'm only searching this story. And in Find what, I know that I have quoted text and I have stuff with inside that quoted text. So let's start with that quotation mark. I'm going to go over to the secret menu, come down to Quotation Marks, and come down to the Double Left Quotation Mark. And that's the expression for a…
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