Reply To: Script for Find Change within para styles?

Find/Change works to change the format of the text. But it does NOT change the underlying paragraph style, so the text now has a local override on it. If you option-click the paragraph style, it will revert to numbered paragraphs.

I thought of other workarounds that would work in this particular case – since all chapters have the same style names, I could fix all of the styles in one chapter and use the Book command to synchronize the styles. Or, I could load all text styles and overwrite the styles with the incoming definitions from the chapter that I had fixed.

As it turned out, I only needed the numbering turned off so they could extract the text without the numbers. But it made me realize that there is no way to use find/change to actually update the paragraph style settings.

I hope that’s a clear enough explanation.