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• • January 31, 2011 at 4:44 am #58562
    hancilt

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    Hi, I wonder if there is an easy way to tell IND (CS5) to reapply all styles and override local formating. I have my document imported from MSWord with styles matching, so all my styles are applied – yet the local formating from MSW is still there. (and setting character styles to none does not do the trick).

    All the features I need – such as italics, special fonts, such as syriac etc. are captured by character styles.

    All I need now is to tell IND to reapply all paragraph styles again as if clicked with ALT – override local formating.

    Is there a way to do it?

    Couple of years ago I got this

    from Peter Kahrel which reapplies fottnote style to all footnotes – which is very helpful indeed.

    app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().footnotes.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle
    = “your footnote style here”

    Now I am wondering if somebody has a more general version to do that for all applied styles in the whole document.

    Thanks Tomas

  • January 31, 2011 at 5:03 am #58563
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Try this, for the main text:

    app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().clearOverrides(OverrideType.ALL);

    I think it doesn't work for text in tables and/or footnotes, because these are part of some other internal model.

  • January 31, 2011 at 5:44 am #58564
    hancilt

    Member

    Thank you – it does the trick – very efficient – it cleans even items on master pages.

    I really appreaciate your imput to this forum. (I have learned a lot from your grep examples over the years here, but being only occasional user of IND I will probably not start seriously learning scripting – GREP does a lot for me)

    Thus even if it looks trivial – it would take me a long time to come up with a similar one-liner to solve my problem. Thanks

  • January 31, 2011 at 7:07 am #58566
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That looks great (especially if you had lots of stories), but don't forget that there is already a feature in InDesign designed to do this for an imported story: The Clear All Overrides button at the bottom of the Paragraph Styles panel. Just select all the text and click it.

    If you need more fine-tuned control over what formatting is saved and what is removed, you might consider looking at the Remove Local Overrides feature in the Blatner Tools suite (blatnertools.com)

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