Here's another little trick: sometimes we want to know on which pages we have used color xy, and with these documents it is sometimes difficult.
Step 1
There are two approaches. The first method would be: I have now made this word pink once.
Step 2
The pink also appears further down, but if I didn't know that, how can I find it out quickly?
To do this, I go into my colors, press F5 and see this pink (wildcard), and I change it from a process color to a solid color by double-clicking on the color wildcard to call up the color field options, and then confirm the change with OK.
Step 3
Now I have the option to activate the separation preview under Window>Output>Separation Preview.
Step 4
This means that I can first hide all colors and now only want to see this pink color. Then I can scroll through the document and see exactly where it appears. I had colored two words, but this color does not appear anywhere else.
Step 5
This can be done quite quickly, or there is a second option. To do this, we first undo everything. We Blender everything back in and set the solid color back to process color.
Step 6
There is a script from Gerald Singelmann for this, I'll give you the source so that you can download it, and then you just have to copy the script into your scripts directory and then execute it. The script is called find_color_in_everything; just double-click on it and it will ask me which color I want to search for. In our case, this is the wildcard.
Source: http://www.indesign-faq.de/de/farbe-im-dokument-finden
Step 7
What happens? Firstly, when I go to my layers panel, a new layer is now created called "found color".
Step 8
And then a new color is created in red and this is called "found color indicator".
Step 9
If I now scroll down the document, the location of the found color is indicated by a red frame. Here is the word "Basic design" in the corresponding text frame ...
Step 10
... and then the word "Recommendations" again.
Step 11
This is ingenious. I can also hide it again at any time by removing the eye, i.e. hiding the layer, and the highlighting is no longer visible.
It's as simple as that, either using solid color with the separation preview or a script.
