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Introduction
This is what we'll create in this episode, a promotional brochure where every price, discount percentage, and phone number is automatically formatted with GrabStyle. Let's get started. Hello, welcome back to the Complete Adobe InDesign Series from Cerdas Inovasi Digital. Grab is a pattern language for searching text, for example, all words that start with rupiah followed by numbers. GrabStyle applies a style character to every text that matches this pattern. Open the promotional brochure file.
Step 1: Promo Text
Its content includes many prices in rupiah, discount percentages, and WhatsApp numbers. We want all prices to be bold and orange, and discount percentages to appear red, without selecting each one individually.
Step 2: Character Style
Create two character styles, price containing bold and orange, and discount containing bold and terracotta red. GrabStyle will call these two character styles.
Step 3: New GREP Style
Double-click the promo paragraph style, then select the GrabStyle category. Click New GrabStyle. In Apply Style, select price, and in Text, type the pattern rupiah backslash dplas dot backslash dplas. This pattern means rupiah followed by numbers, a dot, and numbers again.
Step 4: Automatic Result
Check Preview All prices like 38 thousand rupiah and 45 thousand rupiah are now bold and orange. The Grab pattern recognizes any number, so new prices typed later will also be automatically formatted. Add the second GrabStyle, apply the discount style for the pattern backslash dplas percent, which is numbers followed by a percentage sign.
Step 5: Percent and Phone Number Patterns
Also add the pattern for WhatsApp numbers 08 followed by numbers with the price style.
Step 6: Typing New Price
Click OK then type a new paragraph containing the family package only 120 thousand rupiah, saving 15%. Once finished typing, the price and percentage are automatically formatted without manual intervention.
Done!
Done We have now understood Grab as a pattern, created supporting character styles, added Grab styles for prices, percentages, and phone numbers, and seen the automatic formatting while typing. In the next episode, we will create object styles for frames. Need a layout design for a magazine, book, brochure, product catalog, company profile, or annual report? Cerdas Inovasi Digital provides layout and print design services, as well as InDesign courses from beginner to advanced. Want to master the entire series, 104 episodes from the interface to magazine and book projects? All episodes, complete with step-by-step PDF guides, exercise files, and project files, are available to premium tutorial subscribers. Subscribe starting at 69,000 rupiah per month, save 28% with the 12-month package, or pay once 999,000 for lifetime access. Want just one class? Buy individual classes with lifetime access. Subscribe now at the premium page cerdasinovasidigital.com Contact us via WhatsApp or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode.
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