InDesign How-To: Manage Text Styles Using a Script
Learn a out two powerful scripts for working with paragraph and character styles in InDesign.
In this InDesign how-to video, Chad Chelius shows a couple of his favorite scripts for working with paragraph and character styles. The ShowBasedOn script displays which styles are based on others and the StyledListOfStyles script gives a visual listing of all text styles in your document.
This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on September 13, 2021
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