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InDesign: Introducing GREP Styles (2)

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

This is the second in a series of four short GREP Style tutorials. Part 1: Automatically apply a character style to all text between parentheses Part 3: Converting text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps (OpenType feature) Part 4: Formatting price tags containing dollars and cents with multiple character styles In this second tutorial we […]

InDesign: Introducing GREP Styles (1)

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

InDesign CS3 introduced the ability to perform GREP Find/Changes, making it easier for us to apply character styles to text pattern strings such as ‘all text’ between parentheses.  InDesign CS4 continued the “GREP-theme’ through its  ability to lock this pattern based application of character styles into your Paragraph Styles. The following tutorial is part of […]

How do I create fractions in InDesign?

Adobe InDesign Scripts & Plug-ins

InDesign out-of-the-box, does not contain a ‘Make Fraction” command, like other applications such as QuarkXPress have, so if you’re a Quark converter (Welcome a-board by the way!!!), how do you go abouts creating fractions in InDesign? So how can setting fractions be made easier? Well, there are a number of options available. Let me take […]