Deleting unused Character and Paragraph Styles

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September 16, 2021
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Hi, do you have an up-to-date script (jsx) that removes all unused character styles and paragrap styles? I have searched the forum and every one I found is not working.

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Dirk Becker

Legend

There are some more ways to reference a paragraph style - the based-on style comes to mind, following style within the pargraph style, table- and object styles, indexing. Same for character styles, referenced via run-in styles such as grep/line etc., bullets and numbering and so forth.

I think there is a script that went thru "select unused styles" menu actions in the panel flyout menus, and would delete those instead.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi @KHKH,

Please share which script are you using and what does not work. Does it error out or does it not work as expected? It would be easier to fix an already written code rather than writing something from scratch.

-Manan

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KHKHAuthor

Known Participant

This is an example of a script that i tested

    ArrayCompress=function(array){
          var str = array.sort().join('\r')+'\r'  
          str = str.replace(/([^\r]+\r)(\1)+/g,'$1')  
          str = str.replace(/\r$/,'')  
          return str.split('\r')  
     }
     IsInArray = function (item,array){
         for(var i=0;i<array.length;i++){
             if(array == item){return true;}
         }
         return false;
     }

var doc = app.documents[0];
var styles = doc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle;
try{
     styles = styles.concat(doc.stories.everyItem().footnotes.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle);
}catch(e){}
try{
     styles = styles.concat(doc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle);
}catch(e){}
var names = [];
for(var i=0;i<styles.length;i++){
     names = styles.name;
}
names = ArrayCompress(names);
var allStyles = doc.allParagraphStyles;
for(var i=allStyles.length-1;i>=0;i--){
     if(IsInArray(allStyles.name,names)){
          allStyles.splice(i,1);
     }
}
alert(allStyles.length + " unused styles");

And this is an error:

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

The code you shared was dealing only with paragraph styles and that too it was just showing an alert on the number of unused paragraph styles. I have made some edits it seems to work now, try the following

ArrayCompress=function(array){
	  var str = array.sort().join('\r')+'\r'  
	  str = str.replace(/([^\r]+\r)(\1)+/g,'$1')  
	  str = str.replace(/\r$/,'')  
	  return str.split('\r')  
 }
 IsInArray = function (item,array){
	 for(var i=0;i<array.length;i++){
		 if(array[i] == item){return true;}
	 }
	 return false;
 }

var doc = app.documents[0];
var styles = doc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle;
try{
     styles = styles.concat(doc.stories.everyItem().footnotes.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle);
}catch(e){}
try{
     styles = styles.concat(doc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle);
}catch(e){}
var names = [];
for(var i=0;i<styles.length;i++){
     names.push(styles[i].name);
}
names = ArrayCompress(names);
var allStyles = doc.allParagraphStyles;
for(var i=allStyles.length-1;i>=0;i--){
     if(!IsInArray(allStyles[i].name,names)){
          try{
			  var nm = allStyles[i].name
			  allStyles[i].remove()
			  $.writeln("Removed style " + nm)
			 }catch(e){}
     }
}

P.S. :- Can you share the original discussion from where you picked this code. We should post links to eidts on that as well

-Manan

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