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gezat27571948
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October 6, 2017
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How to find text by "Character Style"

  • October 6, 2017
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HI,

I would like to find a bit of text in the document which have a character style and replace that bit of text with something else without removing the character style.

So for example on the screenshots here. The text saying "Pellentesque efficitur orci i" has the character style applied to it "guidebooklisting_name".

I would like to replace that text with "This is my real text" so the final result would look like this and would not loose the character style.

I hope that make sense : ) Thank you for your help,

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Correct answer Anantha Prabu G

Hi geza,

hope its helps!!

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "Find Text"
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle ="guidebooklisting_name";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "This is my real text";
myDoc.changeGrep();

Thanks,

Prabu G

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Anantha Prabu G
Anantha Prabu GCorrect answer
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October 6, 2017

Hi geza,

hope its helps!!

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "Find Text"
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle ="guidebooklisting_name";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "This is my real text";
myDoc.changeGrep();

Thanks,

Prabu G

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gezat27571948Author
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October 7, 2017

It helps big time : ) Thank you!

I forgot to say I would like to do this regardless of the content what is in that style. But that is just a small change like this

  1. app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "" 
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