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Using Find/Change

Using Find/Change - InDesign Tutorial

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Using Find/Change

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- [Instructor] I have my magazine document open here from the Exercise Files, and I want to find a word. So let's open the Edit menu and choose Find/Change. Or you could press Command + F on the Mac or Control + F on Windows. Now, you can see there are a lot of features in the Find/Change dialog box, so I'm going to start with just the basics, Find What and Change To. Let's say we want to search for the word "End," so I'll just type that into the Find What field. Then, I click Find Next. InDesign finds the first instance in my document, but it's hiding behind the Find/Change dialog box, so let's move this out of the way. I'll zoom in on this. I'll press Command + or Control + a couple of times, and you'll see it zooms in on the text. Notice that I can zoom in and even edit this text while the Find/Change dialog box is still open. That is really helpful. Now, we can see that InDesign did, in fact, find the word "End," but inside another word. That's not what I was intending. I just…

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