Reply To: Find, copy, and paste all text styled with a character style?

Theunis De Jong

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November 18, 2011 at 3:05 am #61091
Theunis De Jong
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That was a fun 5-minute exercise!

I did take a shortcut, though — copying the text immediately into a new document is sort of a bother. You have to draw an empty text frame in your source document first and put the text cursor into it. Then run this script (make sure to fill in the correct character style first).

app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(“phonenumber”);
sourcelist = app.activeDocument.findText().reverse();
while (sourcelist.length > 0)
app.selection[0].parentStory.insertionPoints[-1].contents = sourcelist.pop().contents+”r”;

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