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Find and change text – Adobe InDesign User Manual

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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

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.

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

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

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.

Find and change text

If you want to list, find, and replace fonts in your document, you might want to use the Find Font command instead of the Find/Change command.

Find and change text

1. To search a range of text or a story, select the text or place the insertion point in the story. To search more than one document, open the

documents.

2. Choose Edit > Find/Change, and then click the Text tab.

3. Specify the range of your search from the Search menu, and click icons to include locked layers, master pages, footnotes, and other items in

the search.

4. In the Find What box, describe what you want to search for:

Type or paste the text you want to find.

To search for or replace tabs, spaces, or other special characters, select a representative character (metacharacter) from the pop-up
menu to the right of the Find What box. You can also choose wildcard options such as Any Digit or Any Character.

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