finding unused paragraph styles from InDesign paragraph style panel

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November 22, 2018
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Dear All,

Is it possible to extract the unused paragraph styles name from paragraph style panel. In the paragraph style panel we can select the select All Unused option.

But , I need to extract the selected paragraph style name from panel.

Regards,

Prakash Chinnasamy

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi Prakash,

use menu command: Select All Unused

( A script could do this as well.)

next do: New Group from Styles…

( A script could do this as well.)

hit: OK

( Unfortunately a script cannot do this. That's the dealbreaker here.)

Then a script could read out the names or other properties from the styles of that group. Regardless of the name of the group or position in the paragraph styles panel. If one hits OK the group will always be added to the root.

The latest style group added can be easily identified by its internal ID number. It's always the style group with the highest ID number in the paragraph styles panel.

Regards,
Uwe

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Laubender

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi Prakash,

use menu command: Select All Unused

( A script could do this as well.)

next do: New Group from Styles…

( A script could do this as well.)

hit: OK

( Unfortunately a script cannot do this. That's the dealbreaker here.)

Then a script could read out the names or other properties from the styles of that group. Regardless of the name of the group or position in the paragraph styles panel. If one hits OK the group will always be added to the root.

The latest style group added can be easily identified by its internal ID number. It's always the style group with the highest ID number in the paragraph styles panel.

Regards,
Uwe