This is the fourth and final blog-posts in a series of posts on lookaheads and lookbehinds in GREP. In the previous three posts I briefly introduced GREP, and we took a look at Positive Lookahead, Negative Lookahead and Positive Lookbehind.… Read More

This is the third in a series of blog-posts about GREP. In the previous two posts I briefly introduced GREP, and we took a look at Positive Lookahead and Negative Lookahead. In this post we’ll review the Positive Lookbehind. The… Read More

This is the second in a series of blog-posts about GREP. In the previous post GREP was introduced, and we took a look at the Positive Lookahead. In this post we’ll review the Negative Lookahead. The Negative Lookahead To understand… Read More

During a recent ‘Demystifying GREP’ presentation I gave for the InDesign User Group in Perth, I found myself almost physically jumping into a sentence when explaining the concept of Positive Lookahead. I promised the group I’d write up some posts… Read More

A little GREP and a few free scripts can save you hours of time!… Read More

Here's a short and easy GREP pattern you can use to find one-line paragraphs… Read More

A shameless rebranding brings an old (but still very relevant!) video title to light… Read More

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-180.mp3 (18.8 MB, 35:30 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Creative Cloud subscription discounted rate extended! All about GREP in InDesign Quizzler results: The right and wrong answers, and the winner!… Read More

You've copied a bunch of numbered paragraphs from a web page and now you want to use automatic numbering instead. Here's how to clean up the mess!… Read More

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-156.mp3 …(14.5 MB, 26:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News and Announcements James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Milwaukee, Sept 27 Anne-Marie's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2 Read More

How to type feet and inch marks and then use GREP styles to automatically format them as prime and double prime characters.… Read More

You don't always have to figure out all the GREP codes yourself! Here's a bunch of examples to help you out.… Read More

I’ve been head deep into EPUB… and wanted to share another finding with InDesign CS5.5. A short post only, because I’m in the middle of work InDesign CS5.5 now recognises character styles that are applied through nested styles and GREP… Read More

Martinho da Gloria (www.automatication.com), this week released the 1.02 update for the Mulit-Find/Change plug-in he developed for InDesign. About this plug-in Whether it’s to fix common formatting issues in manuscripts you import in InDesign for book and EBook publishing, such… Read More

Whether you live in a non-english speaking country, or find yourself editing text for clients in other languages, you’re very likely to need a quick way to add glyphs and diacritics to words in InDesign. In the following Quick Tip… Read More

InDesign’s GREP styles are the magic of automatic formatting. In this Quick Tip we will explain how to set up GREP styles and how you can use them to for a consistent and efficient design.… Read More

Formatting all those numbers doesn't have to be a terrible chore!… Read More

The ability to use GREP in a Find/Change is pretty sweet, but there's at least one limitation that could leave a bad taste in your mouth.… Read More

The “Getting Grip on GREP” speaker notes I put together after speaking at the last Melbourne InDesign User Group are now available online. You can download your PDF-copy here.… Read More

A seldom-used, but extraordinarily useful command in InDesign is the Indent-to-here command, which is generated by typing Command-\ (Control-\ on Windows) at the point where you want an indent to occur. You can accomplish the same thing by using a… Read More