(? Adobe InDesign > Version 5.0 > Find-Change Queries folder on your hard drive. Here I’m specifying that InDesign should italicize parenthetical text, but leave the parentheses untouched:īelow is the same GREP string, but this time the characters that govern what the “surrounding items” should be are highlighted in red so you can see what I’m talking about: That means that back in the Find/Change > GREP panel, you can change just the found text’s formatting by specifying what you want in the Change Format area (leave the Change To text field blank). (? Find/Change > GREP panel of InDesign CS3, and then click the Find First button, InDesign selects the first instance of parenthetical text, but not the parentheses themselves. Here’s the GREP expression that finds one or more words of parenthetical content, but doesn’t include the parentheses themselves in the found instances: One example would be formatting parenthetical text without formatting the parentheses themselves: turn (this) into ( this) and (that other thing) into ( that other thing) all at once, throughout the story or document, with a simple click. The action is this: Find that’s in between, and then apply formatting to just the text, not what’s surrounding it. Not only is it a handy Find/Change action, but it’s very easy to modify for different situations that designers are often confronted with. Hey, with the help of Peter Kahrel’s GREP in InDesign CS3 book, I was able to figure out how to do something in InDesign that I’ve always said was possible to do with GREP, but didn’t really know how.
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