GREP Styles and Changing Ligatures

Hello,
I have been using InDesign since it came out, and have great results. However, I am brand new to GREP, and was wondering if a script could be made/written(?) by me (a person who does not understand script), to do the following:
I have tons of copy, regularly, with a number of different ligatures in it. One (of the many, the fi ligature) causes the client to cringe. Is it possible to change this ligature by - turning off - the fi ligature only? Because I am out of the old school, I appreciate ligatures, and tight kerning.
I realize, I could just turn off ligatures, but, would rather not.
Thank you,
Lain Kennedy

A character style whose only property is no ligature, used as a GREP nested paragraph style, is certainly the best approach. However, if the ligature appears in many different paragraph styles, it might be possible to change them all in one operation by creating a paragraph style that duplicates (not based on) [No Style] - that is with no properties set - and create a GREP nested style for it that applies the no ligature property to fi. Then set each paragraph style to be based on this no-fi-ligature paragraph style.
I haven't tested this to see if this really works. Character styles are supposed to supersede paragraph styles, but perhaps not in this scenario.
HTH
Regards,
Peter Gold
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