Comments on: Using GREP Styles in InDesign

By: A.J. Wood

A.J. Wood — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:47:43 +0000

Paul – I am not aware of any built-in method for copying GREP styles between paragraph styles. There may be a script out there somewhere, but my first instinct would be to try using the “based on” method for your paragraph styles.

By: Paul Stokes

Paul Stokes — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:12:52 +0000

Does anyone know if there is a way to copy Grep Styles to other Paragraph styles? I have many of Grep commands I want to use across multiple paragraph styles to capitalize certain phrases and words… do I have to set these up in each paragraph style, or is there a way to copy them between styles? I guess I could recreate the other styles based on the style that contains the GREP commands, but that won’t help if I add more GREP commands later on…

By: A.J. Wood

A.J. Wood — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:34:14 +0000

PhillipC – Yes, GREP styles is a new feature of InDesign CS4. If you’re using a previous release you will have access to Nested Styles not GREP styles.

By: PhillipC

PhillipC — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:03:51 +0000

This is probably dead, but I was wondering how you get the GREP option tab under your paragraph styles. Mine doesn’t have that, so that it does not automatically update. Anyone know how to fix? or is that a CS4 only thing?

By: reubengoh

reubengoh — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:38:10 +0000

nice… thanks!

By: Noorhayati

Noorhayati — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:44:58 +0000

exellent training

By: Jamster

Jamster — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:55:10 +0000

I had a lot of trouble finding my “Paragraph styles” panel. It would have been nice to note it was under the “Tables and text” submenu under “Window”.

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By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:20:25 +0000

Great tutorial. I have a special character format for all Web links in body copy. Each link contains either “www” or “@,” this will save a lot of time!

By: A.J. Wood

A.J. Wood — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:07:50 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the tip. GREP Styles have definitely sped up my ID workflow.

By: alfiks

alfiks — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:34:01 +0000

Very useful lesson. Thank you

By: Mads

Mads — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:48:46 +0000

Absolutely fantastic! Thanks