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Your first GREP style—no codes!

Your first GREP style—no codes! - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

Your first GREP style—no codes!

- [Narrator] Hey, there. Are you part of the silent majority who is freaked out by the term GREP? Wish that you could use it? Are embarrassed to say that you're not quite sure of what it's for? Well, this is going to get you started very easily into the world of GREP, where you will find a way to quickly format your document using a GREP style, without having to know any kind of Arcane code or whatever. Now GREP, you may have seen it in fine change, it's one of these tabs, so as opposed to text find change, GREP will let you search for patterns. So instead of a straight word, it can search for patterns. But we're going to actually use GREP to search for words and apply formatting. Why would we want to do that? Because that's how you can build it into a paragraph style. Say that you're laying out this employee manual Landon Hotels. And Mr. Landon says hey every time that my company's name is mentioned, I want it…

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