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• • June 13, 2013 at 12:52 am #33896
    frankeman90

    Member

    Having spent hours on this I almost give up. I guess it is not a big problem for everyone, but I am kind of new on scripting.

    My problem:

    I have a Indesign table (500 + pages) and need to apply character styles to all the content. To make things easier I have inserted a special character eg. “?”, “?” before every pargraph.

    What I need to do:

    1. A search for every paragraph beginning with “?” and applying paragraph style named “APPLE”

    2. A search for every paragraph beginning with “?” and applying paragraph style named “BANANA”

    3. Deleting the characters “?” and “?”.

    Any suggestions?

    https://tinypic.com/r/ogw3dw/5

    [IMG]https://i42.tinypic.com/ogw3dw.png[/IMG]

  • June 13, 2013 at 5:44 am #33902
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I would use the FindChangeByList script that comes with InDesign.
    https://creativepro.com/find-change-scripting-goodness.php
    or
    https://creativepro.com/a-major-job-gets-easier-with-grep-and-findchangebylist.php

    Or use MultiFindChange:
    https://automatication.com/index.php?id=12

  • June 13, 2013 at 7:46 am #33906
    frankeman90

    Member

    Yes, I have been looking in to the findchangebylist but cannot understand how to make it change paragraph style based on an grep-search.

    Any chance you could help me out?

    (And thanks for the DTP Tools, use them every day ;-)

  • June 13, 2013 at 2:41 pm #33908
    frankeman90

    Member

    Finally got it to work with the script below. But do you know how I can make this only affect the selected text / text frame?

    app.findGrepPreferences=app.changeGrepPreferences=null;

    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat=”?(.+)$”;

    app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=”$1″;

    app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle=”APPLE”;

    app.activeDocument.changeGrep();

    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat=”?(.+)$”;

    app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=”$1″;

    app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle=”BANANA”;

    app.activeDocument.changeGrep();

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