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Now that we've done the difficult one let's go to the easy ones, Glyphs and Objects. Let's look at the Find Change options for them. I'll select this text here, go Edit Find Change, and this time I just want to change the story. And here we can search for Glyphs and change them with something else. Now, when we're choosing the font that we're searching for you only can choose from the fonts that are in the document. That makes sense. You're not going to search for something that's not there, so I happen to know that this is Times and the font we're using here is just Roman. If you happen to know the Unicode ID, this is just a code that you put in there, put it in there. I don't so I'm going to search for the character. Now it's down at the bottom here, it's the bullet, I happen to know it's there. Double-click on it, so we're searching for the bullet. We hit Find, there you can see it finds one right away. So, what do we want to change it with? Here, we can scroll down and choose one of the Glyph sets, like Wingdings, and again, if you know the Unicode put it in, if you don't just scroll down and choose whatever one you want. Here I could just choose a checkmark, double-click there it is there, and then we can just simply Change All, 5 replacements, I'll just hit Done so that we can see it, and there, it's replaced that. Very simple, very straightforward. Now, let's move to the next page here and we can do the same sort of Find and Change with Objects. So, let's see how this works. We'll go Edit, Find Change, and we'll search for objects. Now let's see what we've got here. We'll take these objects here, if I select this one. Fortunately, if I don't know what it is I can still go out here and look and see. It's got a 1 point stroke, and then it's got the red color on the stroke, so what am I going to search for? I'm going to search for a red stroke and let's see what the weight is, we'll go to one point. So, we're going to search for anything with one point red stroke. We don't have to change the stroke, but I'll just click on OK and here's what we're going to change it to. We can do anything. Actually let's just put a Drop Shadow on. And we'll put it on, we'll just do the Multiply Mode, we'll do the Opacity up here, the Distance Ð we've got to type in these figures, I would much prefer sliders here Ð we'll choose the Angle, point 04, oops! Tab point 04. Anyway, we get the idea, and we'll just change the stroke while we're at it here, we'll change it to a different color, we'll go blue, and maybe a round about 55 percent, and we'll make it three point and we'll change it to a Thick Thin line like that. And obviously we can go through and change all these, but I'm just going to do this basic one like that, and now we've done it. Let's see if we can Find. Well, what happens, oops, we cannot find much and the reason is it's just searching for text frames. We could go through and search for graphic frames because that's what these are, and then I'm so confident this is going to work I'm going to hit Change All, and it made the replacements, hit Done, and there we've added the Drop Shadow to these items. It doesn't look too good because it could actually do with a fill. I'll just do that quickly and cheat ere, rather than do a Search and Replace, and there we've done it. Let's do it to these text frames this time and I'll hit Control or Command F to go back in there, and this time we're going to search for text frames. I've got to clear these like this, and what are we going to find. Hmm. Don't know yet, so let's go back out and check. We can select this one, and we'll go to the color. We can see that it's yellow at 37 percent and it's got a 70 percent tint on a black stroke, which is 1 point. So, let's go in and type this. We'll go to the black at 70; I'm going to have to type this in, I'll never get the slider right, at 70 percent. Now, I could go in and give the colors a different color, but I only need to find one thing that I know it's going to find these two on, so that's fine. I'll just accept that. And then what are we going to change it to? Again, we can just choose any of these options here. Let me choose a blue, a tint, just choose again, I'm going to type it in, the slider's playing up, 20 percent blue, and that's the stroke, the fill we'll change to green, again 20 percent like that, and that's fine. We can go through and do lots of changes. Change All, Done, like that, and there we've done Search Change on our graphic frames and our text frames, like that.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe InDesign CS4
Author: Brian White
SKU: 33978
ISBN: 1-935320-36-X
Release Date: 2009-03-31
Duration: 16.5 hrs / 222 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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