: Find/Replace automation in InDesign I have a great number of text replacements to make in a set of documents in InDesign. They always follow the same formula: Change "this text" to "that text."
I have a great number of text replacements to make in a set of documents in InDesign. They always follow the same formula: Change "this text" to "that text." I've been manually selecting "this text", pasting it into the Find box, then selecting "that text" and pasting it into the Replace box. This is laborious.
Is there a way to feed InDesign these instructions to automate the process? Is there a way to paste the whole sentence into the Find/Replace panel and have the correct information appear in Find and Replace?
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Indesign comes with a script called findchangebylist.jsx. It does exactly what you want, but it's pretty tedious to use. So tedious, that many people have created scripts for this same task. I would recommend checking some of these out:
Find Change By Queries
My personal favorite. Easy to use.
Multi-Find/Change 2.0 ( Indesign and Incopy )
Extension
An older version exists for cs4-cs6
Grep query manager and runner:
GREP query runner
GREP query
manager
All of Kahrel's GREP utilities
Batch Find And Replace
XStrings
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