How do I apply paragraph styles from a paragraph style group?

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For example, my group name is: myGroupIt contains the paragraph style: myparHow should I write this?app.selection[0].texts[0].appliedParagraphStyle = mypar;Thank you.

Manan Joshi · Accepted Answer

@dublove it is not about the approach @brian_p_dts took but about what are the possible approaches and there are not too many in this case. You need to locate the paragraphStyle to use it and there are two collections for that on the document object, namely

paragraphStyles :- However, this does not contain styles that are present in the group. So you can't use this. This collection has the benefit of methods like itemByName, itemByID etc. So if you can use it this is the best method.
allParagraphStyles :- This contains all the paragraph styles of the document irrespective of the group in which they are present. However, this is an array, so no special methods like itemByName. Only way to find anything in this would be iterating the array. Another point to note is that styles can have the same name inside different groups. So in order to exactly find the style in a particular group you will need to check it's group as well

So the approach that @brian_p_dts used is fine, else you can also try with allParagraphStyles. However, there is no straight method to get the styles in the group.

-Manan

brian_p_dts · Answer

var mypar = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName("myGroup").paragraphStyles.itemByName("mypar");  No offense friend, but in my learning journey, I would only come here when I was well and thoroughly stuck. You've been at this long enough to be familiar enough with the API to figure things out on your own, methinks.

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