To all the Geniuses rather Money-making guys,

If I would have known JavaScript, then I wouldn’t have posted this request here. There’s no point suggesting this or that. Simply give the solution, or leave it as-is. No one is forcing you to respond.

I remember, the times when people share their knowledge on the Forums including InDesignSecrets.com. But God knows from these money making guys have come together here. It seems that they are out of their job and trying to earn their livelihood in some or the other way :)

@InDesignSecrets team, as I said earlier, please create a separate page for these money loving guys and let them earn bread & butter for the day.

I’m desperate to learn JavaScript but not getting the starting point. I’m trying to catch someone who can teach me JS for InDesign. And I’m sure, one day I’ll learn JavaScript.

Thanks a ton for all your responses!

…nothing happened. As you said, some of the old styles are not available. It depends, how my source is formatted therefore, when I copy text from source to Template file, some unused styles don’t get copied to the Template. I think that’s the problem.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks Colin for the inputs. I tried it but it seems there’s something missing.

I think I have ordered the script correctly.
The script just applies the myTableStyle but didn’t remove the overrides completely.

Secondly, I need a script to do as:
1/ Apply the myTableStyle style to the current table. By current table I mean the table with Cursor in it.
2/ Format the table with Alternate Fills (the existing style do not have the Alternating Fills, I am not supposed to edit it).
2.1/ First 1 Row : Color: None
2.2/ Next 1 Row : Color: Black 20%

And another script to:
1/ Apply the myTableStyle style to the current table. By current table I mean the table with Cursor in it.
2/ Format the table with Alternate Fills (the existing style do not have the Alternating Fills, I am not supposed to edit it).
2.1/ First 1 Row : Color: None
2.2/ Next 1 Row : Color: Black 20%
3/ Convert the the first row to header of the current table.


app.doScript(checkUserSelection, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Process Table");

function checkWhichTable()
{
// ensure the user made a selection
if (app.selection.length != 1)
return null;
var currentTable = app.selection[0];
if (currentTable.hasOwnProperty("baseline"))
{
currentTable = app.selection[0].parent;
}
while (currentTable instanceof Cell || currentTable instanceof Row || currentTable instanceof Column)
currentTable = currentTable.parent;
if (!(currentTable instanceof Table))
{
// No table selected
return null;
}
return currentTable;
}