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• • March 30, 2016 at 1:56 pm #83510
    Phillip Maas

    Participant

    Hi

    I’ve just joined and downloaded one of the templates you have on your site. Is there a quick way to alter the default language from English US across all of them. I imported the character and paragraph styles into a document so my page sizes are right (A4) but the language of the styles is still US

    Thanks

  • March 30, 2016 at 4:52 pm #83515
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    No, sorry, InDesign has no easy way to change the language (or any other format setting) across lots of paragraph and character styles at the same time.

  • March 30, 2016 at 11:53 pm #83520
    Phillip Maas

    Participant

    Thanks for the reply David. I hoped, like the current version of Word, to access some nice paragraph layouts by people who have more of an eye for style than I do, and save time in the process. Looks like I’ll still have to do the yards, unless you have any other suggestions of where to look. (I used the book template – ok, I guess.

  • March 31, 2016 at 7:05 am #83534
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Here’s a scriptlet to change the language in all paragraph styles:

    styles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;
    for (i = 1; i < styles.length; i++) {
      styles[i].appliedLanguage = 'English: UK';
    }

    To do character styles as well, change allParagraphStyles to allCharacterStyles.

    Peter

  • March 31, 2016 at 7:09 am #83535
    Ari Singer

    Member

    There’s not an automatic way, but there’s a faster way.

    Just do a GREP Find/Change. In the Find What field enter .+, leave the Change To field empty. In the Change Format field, under Advanced Character Formats select any language that you want.

    Make sure that the scope of the search is document-wide, includes footnotes, master pages, hidden etc. Then just hit Change All.

    Now to define it in the style, just go to any paragraph and redefine the style. It’s arguably faster then editing every style and changing the language.

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