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Script for Find Change within para styles?

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    • March 24, 2016 at 5:46 am #83357
      Matt Mayerchak
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      Does anyone know of a script that does find/change within paragraph styles?

      A client gave me about a dozen InDesign files converted from Quark. Each has about 30 paragraph styles, and in the conversion, they all came in as numbered paragraph, when they should not be.

      I can easily use find/change to find all text that is numbered and turn that off, but it doesn’t change the setting in the paragraph style. To do that, I have to go through them one by one and turn it off. It is not too difficult but it just made me wonder if anyone knows of a script for this.

      BTW – I have the DTP Tools suite, and just realized that in the Create Paragraph Styles report menu, when you select which style options to include in the report, bullets and numbering are not included. I wonder why not? Is it because they have too many variable options? Even just whether they are turned on or not would be useful because then I could find just which styles have numbering turned on instead of having to check all 30 of them.

      So, if you know of a script that would allow me to search within paragraph styles for a particular attribute, such as “numbering on” and change it to “none”, that would be useful in a case like this.

    • March 24, 2016 at 2:26 pm #83375
      Ari Singer
      Member

      Can you please explain why the regular Find Format/Change Format doesn’t work?

    • March 24, 2016 at 3:10 pm #83377
      Matt Mayerchak
      Participant

      Find/Change works to change the format of the text. But it does NOT change the underlying paragraph style, so the text now has a local override on it. If you option-click the paragraph style, it will revert to numbered paragraphs.

      I thought of other workarounds that would work in this particular case – since all chapters have the same style names, I could fix all of the styles in one chapter and use the Book command to synchronize the styles. Or, I could load all text styles and overwrite the styles with the incoming definitions from the chapter that I had fixed.

      As it turned out, I only needed the numbering turned off so they could extract the text without the numbers. But it made me realize that there is no way to use find/change to actually update the paragraph style settings.

      I hope that’s a clear enough explanation.

    • March 24, 2016 at 3:11 pm #83378
      Stephanie
      Member

      Hi Matt. I think this script may be what you’re looking for:

      Search In Styles:

      Search in Styles

    • March 24, 2016 at 3:48 pm #83381
      Matt Mayerchak
      Participant

      Stephanie,

      Thanks! That does indeed seem to be exactly what I was looking for.

      I already did the project that started me asking about it, but I will buy it and try it out because I can imagine other uses already. For instance, A client of mine likes to set up paragraph styles using single-line composer for body text and it’s a pain to change it to Adobe paragraph composer manually.

      Thanks!

    • March 24, 2016 at 3:59 pm #83382
      Stephanie
      Member

      Great! Glad it was helpful.

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