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Using Find/Change

Using Find/Change - InDesign Tutorial

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Using Find/Change

- [Voiceover] A very useful tool for automating repetitive editing in Indesign is the Find/Change function. Before I use this, I'm going to double-click with my selection tool into a text frame to switch to my type tool. Then come to the Edit menu, and choose Find/Change. At its most basic, we can use this to look for one word, and replace it with another. We can limit the search to just this Story, to the end of the Story, this Document, or all open Documents. We can say whether we want the search to be case-sensitive, or whether we want to look for a whole word, which in this case wouldn't find any plural forms of the word. Now in my case, because the word I'm looking for occurs in both upper and lower-case, and because there may be plural forms of it, I'm going to leave both these options unchecked. I can choose Find Next, and Change, or if I'm feeling confident go ahead and Change All and in this case 19 replacements are made. Find/Change can also be used to apply formats. The…

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