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GREP styles

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GREP styles

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- [Instructor] All right, the plot thickens. We've seen paragraph styles, we've seen character styles. Now, we're going to look at GREP styles. And these are a way to look for a pattern within the paragraph, and then apply a character style to it. You embed a GREP style into a paragraph style definition. So, here's a really simplistic example. In this dummy text, I have several instances of the texturing Acme Products. So, let's say that wherever that word occurs or those words occur, we want them to be in a specific style, we want them to be bold. So, I will Edit the paragraph style definition, come to GREP style, New GREP style. Now, I don't actually have a character style to apply to it, but I can make one on the fly. I'll call it Bold, basic character formats. All I need to do is type in font style, Bold. All of the other formats will be relative to the paragraph style. And then what am I going to apply it to? Acme Products. It is case sensitive, so you need to be precise. And you…

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