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Click here to download GREP Quick Reference guide.


FREE GREP EXPRESSION QUERIES

Add no break before £
Anything in double quotes
Capitalise character after bullet
Change Acronyms to OpenType All Small Caps
Find email addresses
Find fraction numbers
Find URL
Hyphen between numbers to en dash
Insert something at end of story
Remove end of story return
Search for brackets plus words inside
Search for dates
Search for words within brackets
Soft return to space
Space before £


To use these Find/Change GREP expessions click on the link to download them. Unzip the downloaded file then place the .xml file in the following folder.
Mac OS Users\[username]\Library\Preferences\
Adobe InCopy\[Version]\Find-Change Queries\GREP
Windows XP
Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\InCopy\`[Version]\
Find-Change Queries\GREP
Windows Vista™
Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\
Adobe\InCopy\[Version]\
Find-Change Queries\GREP

These expressions will then be found in the Query pop-up menu of the Find/Change dialogue box. Some enter only the find expression allowing you to choose the formatting to be applied to the text found.

 
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