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Metacharacters for searching
Metacharacters represent a character or symbol in InDesign. Metacharacters in the Text section of the Find/Change dialog box begin with a
caret (^); metacharacters in the GREP section begin with a tilde (~) or backslash (\). You can type metacharacters in the Text tab or GREP tab of
the Find/Change dialog box.
Save time fixing punctuation errors by saving search strings as queries.
times and not more than 3
b{2,3}? matches at least 2
times and not more than 3
(shortest match)
abbc abbbc abbbbc
abbbbbc
Character: Text tab metacharacter: GREP tab metacharacter:
Tab Character ^t \t
End of Paragraph ^p \r
Forced Line Break ^n \n
Any Page Number ^# ~#
Current Page Number ^N ~N
Next Page Number ^X ~X
Previous Page Number ^V ~V
* Any Variable ^v ~v
Section Marker ^x ~x
* Anchored Object Marker ^a ~a
* Footnote Reference Marker ^F ~F
* Index Marker ^I ~I
Bullet Character ^8 ~8
Japanese Bullet ^5 ~5
Caret Character ^^ \^
Backslash Character \ \\
Copyright Symbol ^2 ~2
Ellipsis ^e ~e
Tilde ~ \~
Paragraph Symbol ^7 ~7
Registered Trademark Symbol ^r ~r
Section Symbol ^6 ~6
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