How to change some text

[yechi_770]

I use Hebrew words and some times a quotation starts in middle of a word and I want to change them all to lower quotation marks how do I do that? I search for any character, quotation mark, any character, any character how would I just change the quotation mark and the character will stay the same? (As I am not searching for a specific character)

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

Can you please post a screenshot?

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

You can search for patterns (and not literal characters) using GREP.

Not knowing Hebrew, I can't be specific here but here's a find/change I used recently. My author used inch marks in place of open and close quotes. (Other ACPs: this was actually in FrameMaker which doesn't have InDesign's Use Typographer's Quotes).

Anyway, here is how I did it:

And here's how it works: the bold (.+?) means match any content (shortest match) and the ~" on both sides represents straight quotes. So match any content within straight quotes. Substitute ~" for the current quotation marks in your document.

Find: ~"(.+?)~"

The bold $1 will paste whatever it matched in the parentheses in the Find string. ~{ and ~} are the left and right quotes—substitute your lower quotation marks on either side of the $1. So add an open quote, paste the content that was found, and add a close quote.

Change: ~{$1~}

The quote characters that you need should be listed in the Quotation category in the @ menu at the end of the find and change text fields.

~Barb