Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 321)

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* Can be entered in the Find What box only, not the Change To box.
^ Can be entered in the Change To box, not the Find What box.
Find and change objects
You can use the Find/Change command to find and replace the attributes and effects applied to objects, graphics frames, and text frames. For
example, to give drop shadows a uniform color, transparency, and offset distance, you can use the Find/Change command to search for and
replace drop shadows throughout a document.
1. Choose Edit > Find/Change.
2. Click the Object tab.
3. Click the Find Object Format box, or click the Specify Attributes To Find icon .
4. On the left side of the Find Object Format Options dialog box, select a type of formatting, specify the format attributes, and then click OK.
Make sure that the categories you want to search for are in the appropriate state. You can use one of three states for each Effects category:
turned on, turned off, or ignored. For example, setting Drop Shadow to On includes drop shadow formatting in the search; setting Drop
Shadow to Off searches for objects in which drop shadow formatting is turned off; setting Drop Shadow to Ignore leaves drop shadows out
of the search.
5. If you want to apply formatting to the object found, click the Change Object 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. Click the Find and Change buttons to format the objects.
* Single-line Off (?-s)
* Any alphanumeric character [[:alnum:]]
* Any alphabetic character [[:alpha:]]
* Any blank character, either space or
tab [[:blank:]]
* Any control character [[:control:]]
* Any graphical character [[:graph:]]
* Any printable character [[:print:]]
* Any punctuation character [[:punct:]]
* Any character whose code is greater
than 255 (applies only to the wide
character traits classes) [[:unicode:]]
* Any hexadecimal digit character 0-9,
a-f, and A-F [[:xdigit:]]
* Any character of a certain glyph set,
such as a, à, á, â, ã, ä, å, A, À, Á, Â,
Ã, Ä and Å [[=a=]]
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