Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 170)

164 USING INDESIGN
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Last updated 11/16/2011
Some OpenType formatting options appear in both the OpenType Options and Basic Character Formats (Position
menu) sections. For information on OpenType and other formatting attributes, search for the related topic in
InDesign Help.
Note: To search for (or replace with) formatting only, leave the Find What or Change To box blank.
5 If you want to apply formatting to the text found, click the Change Format box, or click the Specify Attributes To
Change icon in the Change Format Settings section. Then select a type of formatting, specify the format
attributes, and click OK.
6 Use the Find and Change buttons to format the text.
If you specify formatting for your search criteria, info icons appear above the Find What or Change To boxes. These
icons indicate that formatting attributes have been set and that the find or change operation will be restricted
accordingly.
To quickly remove all formatting attributes in the Find Format Settings or Change Format Settings sections, click the
Clear button.
Common Find/Change techniques
Wildcard searches Specify wildcards, such as Any Digit or Any White Space, to broaden your search. For example,
typing “s^?ng” in the Find What box searches for words beginning with an “s” and ending with “ng,” such as “sing,”
“sang,” “song,” and “sung.” You can either type wildcard characters or choose an option from the Wildcards submenu
in the pop-up menu next to the Find What text field.
Clipboard for metacharacter searches To search for metacharacters such as em dashes or bullet characters, you may
want to select the text first and paste it into the Find What box to spare the trouble of entering metacharacters.
InDesign automatically converts pasted special characters to their metacharacter equivalent.
Replace with clipboard contents You can replace search items with either formatted or unformatted content copied to
the clipboard. You can even replace text with a graphic you copied. Simply copy the item, and then, in the Find/Change
dialog box, choose an option from the Other submenu from the pop-up menu to the right of the Change To box.
Find and remove unwanted text To remove unwanted text, define the text you want to remove in the Find What box
and leave the Change To box empty (make sure that no formatting is set in this box).
XML tagging You can apply XML tags to text you search for.
Search options for finding and changing text
Search menu Contains options that determine the range of the search.
• Documents Search the entire document or All Documents to search all open documents.
• Story Search all text in the currently selected frame, including text in other threaded text frames and overset text.
Select Stories to search stories in all selected frames. This option appears only if a text frame is selected or an insertion
point is placed.
• To End Of Story Search from the insertion point. This option appears only if an insertion point is placed.
• Selection Search only selected text. This option appears only if text is selected.
Include Locked Layers Searches for text on layers that have been locked using the Layer Options dialog box. You
cannot replace text on locked layers.
Include Locked Stories Searches for text in stories that have been checked out as part of an InCopy workflow. You
cannot replace text in locked stories.