POWER USERS - Find and Replace tips….

[David Battistella]

i am dealing with a lot of not so nicely formatted text these days as i want to print some books for personal use from the guttenberg project.  
 

i am on Mac OSX

besides the obvious like using a program like text mate or plain text in the text editor, still i would love some of your best tips to use find and replace for formatting.  
 

i recently was using it a lot to format text in a play that I was laying out, using ot to apply styles to character names and other things. 
 

so, just putting this out there to use this thread as a collection of the best ways, or unknown ways to use find and replace.  
 

carriage returns in line breaks in text from pdf documents is another pain to deal with and i wish there was a keyboard shortcut for REPLACE instead of having to click the button, it would make things go a lot faster wit less clicks, but maybe there is some conditional formatting i can use that i do not know about. 
 

thanks, 

david

 

 

 

 

[loukash]

My best tip is to learn how to use regular expressions:
https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Extras/regex.html

[David Battistella]

OK. Diving in....

 

Thanks, 

David