Lynda.com InDesign CS4 Learning GREP

Author: Michael Murphy | Duration (hr:min): 03:45 | Language: English | 1DVD | Released on: 11/18/2009 | Exercise files: Yes | Size ( Compressed ): 257MB | Size ( After Extraction ): 299MB

Description
InDesign CS4: Learning GREP decodes the language of GREP for InDesign users. It shows how this versatile tool can be used for describing text, which can speed up or automate everyday formatting tasks. InDesign expert and graphic designer Michael Murphy introduces the basic concepts of GREP, and shows how to build powerful expressions using metacharacters. Michael also explores many of the little-known features of GREP, explaining how GREP styles and Find/Change can be used to rearrange data and dynamically format text. Exercise files accompany this course.
Topics include:

* Using metacharacters, the building blocks of GREP
* Describing text that may not exist with zero operators
* Applying multiple character styles to the same text with GREP styles
* Eliminating orphaned words at the ends of paragraphs
* Preserving and recalling subexpressions
* Customizing a GREP-based text cleanup script for long documents


Table Of Contents
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. GREP Basics
What is GREP?
Text searching vs. GREP searching
Working with GREP and InDesign

2. Basic Metacharacters
Using metacharacters, the building blocks of GREP
Escaping out metacharacters
Building with wild cards
Understanding undocumented wild card "opposites"
Specifying locations
Learning the undocumented location metacharacters
Using repeat metacharacters and defining the shortest match
Specifying exact matches and ranges
Finding content that doesn't exist with zero functions

3. Advanced Metacharacters
Creating "or" conditions
Building subexpressions
Using character sets to create custom wild cards
Using negative character sets
Finding around text with lookbehind and lookahead
Building with modifiers: Case sensitivity
Building with modifiers: Single-line and multi-line
Using InDesign-compatible Posix expressions

4. GREP Styles
GREP styles vs. nested styles
Styling specific words or phrases
Describing inconsistent text
Describing and styling prices
Applying multiple character styles to the same text
Describing and styling email addresses
Dynamically fixing orphaned words with GREP

5. GREP Find/Change
Adding more to the mix: GREP Find/Change
Understanding queries
Using formatting and styles as Find/Change criteria
Preserving and recalling using subexpressions
Backreferences in search queries
Cleaning up text with GREP
Creating a GREP-based text cleanup script
6. A Practical Project with Advanced Find/Change and GREP

Describing imported spreadsheet data
Rearranging imported spreadsheet data
Applying styles and formatting with GREP
Describing and standardizing phone numbers
Inserting anchored objects with GREP

Conclusion
Goodbye


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