InDesign's GREP implementation can be used for text and also for formatting codes, finding patterns in text as well as literal text. GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful tool that lets you use wildcards ("jokers") to search and replace text. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to address typos and reader comments. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to cover InDesign CS5. Several examples have been added, and most examples are now analysed in more detail. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to cover InDesign CC. I will if I have to, but if there’s a free way, I would much prefer that.Updated: June 2015. Searching around, I find that this can be done with ’s Style Utilities, but that’s $39 that I’d really rather not spend just for this. Sadly, as far as I know, you cannot specify styles in GREP lookbehinds, and my InDesign scripting skills unfortunately leave an awful lot to desire. I am assuming a GREP find-and-replace is probably my best bet, but I cannot figure out any way to actually do it. Given that there are perhaps 250 or 300 headers in this book (and that the InDesign files have plenty of other problems apart from this), I would really, really like to be able to automatically change this.
One of these things is that every time there’s a header, the paragraph following the header (which is supposed to be in some sort of with no first-line indent style) has the same header style as the preceding header, only manually overridden to look like with no first-line indent. I have inherited the InDesign files from the designer who set the original book, and there are certain things that lead me to believe that… well, that the guy knew nothing about how to use InDesign.
I am re-typesetting a book to be published in its second edition.
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