Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Search using queries
1. Choose Edit > Find/Change.
2. Choose a query from the Query list.
The queries are grouped by type.
3. Specify a range to search on the Search menu.
The search range is not stored with the query.
4. Click Find.
5. To continue searching, click Find Next, Change (to change the most recently found text or punctuation mark), Change All (a message
indicates the total number of changes), or Change/Find (to change text or punctuation marks and continue your search).
After you select a search query, you can adjust the settings to fine-tune your search.
Save queries
Save a query in the Find/Change dialog box if you want to run it again or share it with others. The names of queries you save appear in the Query
list in the Find/Change dialog box.
1. Choose Edit > Find/Change.
2. Select Text, GREP, or a different tab to undertake the search you want.
3. Below the Search menu, click icons to determine whether items such as locked layers, master pages, and footnotes are included in the
search.
These items are included in the saved query. However, the range of the search isn’t saved with the query.
4. Define the Find What and Change To fields. (See
.)
5. Click the Save Query button in the Find/Change dialog box and enter a name for the query.
If you use the name of an existing query, you are asked to replace it. Click Yes if you want to update the existing query.
Delete queries
Select it on the Query list and click the Delete Query button.
Load queries
Customized queries are stored as XML files. The names of customized queries appear in the Query list in the Find/Change dialog box.
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