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Phil 815
Phil 815
Inspiring
September 8, 2023
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Find text in table by character style

  • September 8, 2023
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Hi all, I'm hoping someone could assist me with my script to find any text in a selected table that has a given character style. Below is my approach but findGrep() isn't returnng any matching results. This strategy seems to work when I search by paragraph style so I'm not sure why it doesn't translate to character style. Any help would be appreciated!

 

    app.findPreferences = null;
    app.changePreferences = null;
    app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = characterStyle;
    const textFound = selection.findGrep();
    updateTracking(textFound, trackingToAdd);

 

 

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    Correct answer Phil 815

    Solved it! I needed to clear out 

    findGrepPreferences instead of findPreferences.  I think findPreferences might be a deprecated method at this point, not sure. This did the trick: 
      

     

    app.findGrepPreferences = inDesign.NothingEnum.NOTHING;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = characterStyle;
const textFound = selection.findGrep();
updateTracking(textFound, trackingToAdd);

     

    2 replies

    Peter Kahrel
    Community Expert
    Peter KahrelCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 8, 2023

    Do you know for sure that the style is used in the table? (Sorry, had to ask)

    Is the selection a table? Not an insertion point, or a cell, for instance?

    Phil 815
    Phil 815Author
    Inspiring
    September 8, 2023

    Haha no worries it's worth asking since we sometimes overlook the small details. It is used in the table, the solution I found is in a reply to your original response. Thanks for taking a look at it with me!

    Peter Kahrel
    Community Expert
    Peter KahrelCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 8, 2023

    If 'characterStyle' is a string, try the object, i.e.

    app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(characterStyle);

     

    Phil 815
    Phil 815Author
    Inspiring
    September 8, 2023

    Thanks Peter. Unfortunately that did not work. Using the string or the actual style (as you suggested) both seem to load a valid style to the findGrepPreferences, it's just not locating the characters with that style for some reason.

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