GREP in InDesign

GREP (global/regular expression/print) is a way to describe patterns in text. For example, if you want to find a word that starts with a 'D' and ends with a 'G', you can do that with GREP.

Particularly useful for long documents such as books, catalogues or newspapers, the power of GREP can be harnessed to deal with the removal of double spaces after full stops or to apply a style to every string of text inside a set of parenthesis.

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