: How do I use Indesign Find/Change correctly? My text in Indesign contains numerous instances of words followed by a comma and no space after the comma (like: "Hello,Joe"). I'd like to insert
My text in Indesign contains numerous instances of words followed by a comma and no space after the comma (like: "Hello,Joe"). I'd like to insert a space after the commas (corrected: "Hello, Joe"). I thought to use the Find/Change feature.
Using Find/Change I entered this in the Find dialog: "^$,^$". It finds the words with no space after a comma, as I had hoped. I thought entering "^$, ^$" in the Change field would preserve my text and add the space, but alls it does is change my text to "Hell^$, ^$oe."
How do I get this to work?
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I worked out the solution thanks to Janus Bahs Jacquet's comment:
Using the GREP option in Find/Change I entered "(,)([lu])" in the Find field. The first set of parentheses searches for a comma and the second looks for any letter, which I used because it will not match to a whitespace.
In Change I entered ", " which is a comma, space to be inserted, and a placeholder ("") that refers to "([lu])" in the Find field. The placeholder keeps any letter that immediately followed the comma.
Now that I get the concept, the online documentation seems much clearer. Thanks!
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