Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 160)

152 USING INDESIGN CS4
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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 in Adobe Version Cue or as part of
an InCopy workflow. You cannot replace text in locked stories.
Include Hidden Layers Searches for text on layers that have been hidden using the Layer Options dialog box. When
text on a hidden layer is found, you can see highlighting where the text appears, but you cannot see the text. You can
replace text on hidden layers.
Text in a hidden condition is always omitted from searching.
Include Master Pages Searches for text on master pages.
Include Footnotes Searches footnote text.
Case Sensitive Searches for only the word or words that exactly match the capitalization of the text in the Find
What box. For example, a search for PrePress won’t find Prepress, prepress, or PREPRESS.
Whole Word Disregards search characters if they are part of another word. For example, if you search for any as a
whole word, InDesign disregards many.
Search using GREP expressions
On the GREP tab of the Find/Change dialog box, you can construct GREP expressions to find alphanumeric strings
and patterns in long documents or many open documents. You can enter the GREP metacharacters manually or
choose them from the Special Characters For Search list. GREP searches are case-sensitive by default.
1 Choose Edit > Find/Change, and click the GREP tab.
2 At the bottom of the dialog box, 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.
Updated 18 June 2009