Reply To: Is it possible to automate text changes on individual page headers and footers?

The new text character style is really just a style in name only, with no actual changes in the style. This way it would not override any styles already applied to the text. Another solution would be to create a duplicate character style of every paragraph style applied and define those character styles as new text character style – New Text Header01, New Text Paragraph01, and so forth. Visually there would be no change, but the applied character styles could be identified by the script.

The script would also need to change the date shown on the page to the current date that the script is run. Every page has a revision number and date in either the footer or the header (depending on the design). Originally the date will be the date the file was created, but it will need to change on each individual page that has edits (just like the revision number is changed).