GREP in InDesign

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Detailed Contents
5. Power Searching with GREP
6. GREP by Example
7. The Basics: The Find/Change Dialog
   1. Adding Formatting and Styling
   2. Undocumented Features
8. Wildcards (or Character Classes)
   1. Any Character
   2. Any Uppercase Letter
   3. Any Lowercase Letter
   4. Any Letter
   5. Any Digit
   6. Any Word Character
   7. Accented Letters
   8. Accented Letters: Character Equivalents
   9. Digraphs
   10. Any Whitespace
   11. Any Dash
   12. Quotation Marks
   13. Any Punctuation
   14. Opening and Closing Punctuation
   15. Homemade Wildcards: Character Classes
   16. Negative Character Classes
   17. Alternatives: Sort of a Wildcard
9. Locations
10. Repeat: Sequences of Characters
    1. ? Zero or One Time
    2. * Zero or More Times
    3. + One or More Times
    4. Shortest Match: Lazy Operators
    5. Alternative: Negative Character Class
    6. Shortest Match Or Negative Character Class?
11. Repeating a Pattern a Specific Number of Times
12. Referring to Wildcards: Back-Referencing
13. Finding Formatted Text
14. Replacing with Wildcards
    1. Swap First and Last Name
    2. Swap Last Name and Initials in a Selection
    3. Change First Names to Initials
    4. Change Date Format
    5. Remove Dots at the End of Section Headings
    6. Remove Duplicate Entries in a List
    7. Replace Certain Hyphens with an En Dash
15. Splitting Up Complex GREP Expressions
    1. Replace Hyphens in Page Ranges with En Dashes
    2. Drop Digits
    3. Inserting Thousand Separators
    4. Keeping Initials Together
16. Chaining GREP Queries
17. Applying Styles with GREP Find/Change
18. Look Ahead: Match Selectively
    1. Adjust Space Between Certain Characters
    2. Small Caps Revisited
    3. Negative Lookahead
19. Look Behind
    1. Italicize Prefixed Words
    2. Italicize Letters Following a Year
    3. Use Table Figures After Capitals
    4. A Limitation of the Classic Lookbehind
    5. Negative Lookbehind
20. Lookaround
    1. Match Words Wrapped in Certain Characters
    2. Keep Certain Words Together
    3. Replace hyphens in page ranges—revisited
21. Lookaround and Formatting
    1. Changing Formatting to Text Tags
    2. Changing Text Tags to Formatting
22. Replacing Using Location Markers
23. Single-line and Multiline
24. Conditional GREP Expressions
25. GREP Styles
    1. Ordering GREP Styles
    2. Apply Fonts to Unicode Ranges
    3. Applying Styles in a Table of Contents
    4. GREP Styles: Efficiency
    5. How To Optimize GREP Expressions
    6. Temporarily Disabling GREP Styles
    7. GREP Styles, Nested Styles, and Nested Line Styles
    8. Copying GREP Expressions from Queries to GREP Styles
26. Troubleshooting
    1. Patch to InDesign’s Latest Version
    2. Escape Characters
    3. GREP Is Case-Sensitive
    4. Hyphens in Character Classes
    5. The Dot Does Not Match Footnote Markers
    6. Parentheses
    7. Split Complex Expressions
    8. Spaces
    9. You’re Trying a GREP Search Using the Text Search Tab
    10. Try GREP Expressions on a Small Sample
    11. Character-Class Mismatches
27. Resources
28. Quick Reference
    1. Character Representations
    2. Character Classes 1: Standard Classes
    3. Character Classes 2: Posix Expressions
    4. Character Classes 3: Unicode Properties
    5. Location Markers
    6. Modifiers
    7. GREP Code Dictionary