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InDesign CS4: Learning GREP decodes the language of GREP for InDesign users. It shows how this versatile tool can be used for describing text, which can speed up or automate everyday formatting tasks. InDesign expert and graphic designer Michael Murphy introduces the basic concepts of GREP, and shows how to build powerful expressions using metacharacters. Michael also explores many of the little-known features of GREP, explaining how GREP styles and Find/Change can be used to rearrange data and dynamically format text. Exercise files accompany this course.

Course InDesign CS4: Learning GREP Author Michael Murphy SKU ISBN Release Date 2009-11-18 Duration 3.45 hrs / 41 tutorials Work files Yes Price $ 49.95 Retail price $ 99.95 Language Tags CS4, InDesign Required software Adobe InDesign CS4 + Extra Content

Introduction Welcome 01:04 Using the exercise files 00:29 1. GREP Basics What is GREP? 01:53 Text searching vs. GREP searching 02:35 Working with GREP and InDesign 03:28 2. Basic Metacharacters Using metacharacters, the building blocks of GREP 06:37 Escaping out metacharacters 02:49 Building with wild cards 09:09 Understanding undocumented wild card "opposites" 03:11 Specifying locations 07:04 Learning the undocumented location metacharacters 04:45 Using repeat metacharacters and defining the shortest match 05:45 Specifying exact matches and ranges 02:52 Finding content that doesn't exist with zero functions 03:52 3. Advanced Metacharacters Creating "or" conditions 05:24 Building subexpressions 05:52 Using character sets to create custom wild cards 07:03 Using negative character sets 03:02 Finding around text with lookbehind and lookahead 08:01 Building with modifiers: Case sensitivity 04:00 Building with modifiers: Single-line and multi-line 03:10 Using InDesign-compatible Posix expressions 06:54

5. GREP Find/Change Adding more to the mix: GREP Find/Change 01:41 Understanding queries 08:20 Using formatting and styles as Find/Change criteria 05:20 Preserving and recalling using subexpressions 07:49 Backreferences in search queries 03:08 Cleaning up text with GREP 02:45 Creating a GREP-based text cleanup script 04:27 6. A Practical Project with Advanced Find/Change and GREP Describing imported spreadsheet data 06:56 Rearranging imported spreadsheet data 07:17 Applying styles and formatting with GREP 11:14 Describing and standardizing phone numbers 09:20 Inserting anchored objects with GREP 08:58 Conclusion Goodbye 00:27