Changing Characters in InDesign with GREP

Find and Replace Characters in InDesign! Changing Characters in InDesign with GREP:
After DTP file conversions, often with Markzware Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) or PDF2DTP (PDF to InDesign), some users will substitute fonts. This may result in slightly different 'en' and 'em' word spacing. For many users, this will not be a problem; but, for users who are rightfully picky about typography, H&J's, and paragraph settings, this can be a problem.

A simple "Find and Replace" can help, combined with the GREP feature within InDesign. Changing or replacing characters has never been easier!

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Adobe's website also offers details about Find and Replace, in InDesign:

Find/Change overview
The Find/Change dialog box contains tabs that let you specify what you want to find and change.
Find/Change dialog box
A. Find/Change tabs
B. Find a tab character
C. Replace with an em dash
D. Search options
E. Metacharacters menu

Text
Search for and change specific occurrences of characters, words, groups of words, or text formatted a certain way. You can also search for and replace special characters such as symbols, markers, and white space characters. Wildcard options help to broaden your search.

GREP
Use advanced, pattern-based search techniques to search for and replace text and formatting.

Glyph
Search for and replace glyphs using Unicode or GID/CID values, especially useful to search for and replace glyphs in Asian languages.

Object
Search for and replace formatting effects and attributes in objects and frames. For example, you can find objects with a 4-pt stroke and replace the stroke with a drop shadow.
Source: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSFB3603CC-8D84-48d8-9F77-F3E0644CB0B6a.html

Doug Rosen from Markzware walks you though how easy GREP in InDesign can be! Note: When converting from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS6, CS5.5, CS5, or CS4, InDesign has two modes (Paragraph and Line Alignment) and QuarkXPress has only one. Thus, sometimes, very fine adjustments may be needed, to meet precise graphic design requirements, although often the conversion is perfect and far better than starting the desktop publishing layout over, from scratch!

Great tip for changing dashes, lines, white spaces and much, much more in this video on how to Find and Replace Characters in InDesign:

[Start of Transcript]
Many people have asked, when they use our Q2ID or PDF2DTP products, once they've converted their file into InDesign, how they can replace certain characters, in either large sections, or for an entire document. So, this short tutorial will show you how to use GREP, in InDesign, to replace characters.

And I'm running InDesign CS6. So, let's say I want to replace, in these first couple paragraphs, the space character, with an "em space" character, which is the space of an M. In order to do that, what I first need to do is bring up my "Info" window here, in InDesign.

And if I highlight a character, which I'll highlight a space, it's going to show me the hexadecimal value of that character. And, then, I want to replace that with, say, an em space.

So, you need to first look up your hex value, and then replace it, with another hex value. So, for instance, if I want to replace all the lowercase Qs and make them all uppercase, the lower case Q is a hex 71. So, we'll put a 71 in here. And for an uppercase Q, I don't know what that is. So, let's just go type one and, then, we'll highlight that. That shows as a hex 51. We'll add that in, 51.

We'll change the selection from "Selection" to the entire "Document". We'll go ahead and do a Change All. We have 1841. We'll go ahead and click "OK". And, now, you can see that all of the lowercase Qs have been made into uppercase. So, a quick tutorial on how to use GREP, in InDesign, to replace characters.
[End of Transcript]

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Changing Characters in InDesign with GREP

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