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Sayed Ali Mousawi
Sayed Ali Mousawi
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July 4, 2019
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Select text based on character style or paragraph style

  • July 4, 2019
  • 3 replies
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Hi Everyone !

i wrote this script with mr.[Jongware]​'s Help:

app.selection[0].appliedCharacterStyle = "R";
app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";
app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].contents = ' (';
app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";
app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].contents = ') ';

this is for a selected text,

Now i need to select all texts with a specific character style then execute this script. to apply changes all at once.

thank you very much.

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Correct answer Manan Joshi

I don't understand the exact thing that you are trying to solve, before we get into specifics could you try the following code and see if that is what you want

app.findGrepPreferences = null
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "W";
var found = app.activeDocument.findGrep(true)
for (i = 0; i < found.length; i++)
{
    found.appliedCharacterStyle = "R";
    found.insertionPoints[-1].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";
    found.insertionPoints[-1].contents = ' ﴾';
    found.insertionPoints[0].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";
    found.insertionPoints[0].contents = '﴿ ';
}

-Manan

3 replies

Sunil Yadav
Sunil Yadav
Legend
July 5, 2019

Hi @https://forums.adobe.com/people/sayed%20alim9773784 ,

Please be more specific with the requirement of help that you are looking for.

Then there might be possibility of getting better help.

Best

Sunil

M
Community Expert
Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 5, 2019

Hi Sayed,

The following code will find the text with a particular character style applied

app.findGrepPreferences = null
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "Name_of_the_character_style"; //Change it as per your character style
var found = app.activeDocument.findGrep(true)
for (i = 0; i < found.length; i++){
    //found is the text which has the character style applied, so you can plugin your code in this for loop
    alert(found)
}
app.findGrepPreferences = null

-Manan

-Manan
Sayed Ali Mousawi
Sayed Ali MousawiAuthor
Known Participant
July 5, 2019

Hi Manan, Thank you,

but my code is based on selected text , and this is combined code that is not working.

app.findGrepPreferences = null 

app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "W";

var found = app.activeDocument.findGrep(true) 

for (i = 0; i < found.length; i++)

{ 

app.selection[0].appliedCharacterStyle = "R";

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].contents = ' ﴾';

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].contents = '﴿ ';

} 

M
Community Expert
Manan JoshiCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
July 5, 2019

I don't understand the exact thing that you are trying to solve, before we get into specifics could you try the following code and see if that is what you want

app.findGrepPreferences = null
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "W";
var found = app.activeDocument.findGrep(true)
for (i = 0; i < found.length; i++)
{
    found.appliedCharacterStyle = "R";
    found.insertionPoints[-1].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";
    found.insertionPoints[-1].contents = ' ﴾';
    found.insertionPoints[0].appliedCharacterStyle = "Q";
    found.insertionPoints[0].contents = '﴿ ';
}

-Manan

-Manan
    Anantha Prabu G
    Anantha Prabu G
    Legend
    July 4, 2019

    Hi Sayed,

    Below link helps to you.

    Re: Select text based on paragraph style selected in Paragraph styles panel

    Thanks,

    Prabu G

    Design smarter, faster, and bolder with InDesign scripting.
    Sayed Ali Mousawi
    Sayed Ali MousawiAuthor
    Known Participant
    July 4, 2019

    No Man! that's not what i'm looking for.

    Anantha Prabu G
    Anantha Prabu G
    Legend
    July 4, 2019

    Hi,

    I assume you need to insert the brackets "(" and ")" to applied character style throughout the document at once. Am I right? If wrong, please provide screenshots before and after process?

    Thanks,

    Prabu G

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