Applying a paragraph style to text frames in document

[djbgraphicdesign]

Hello everyone! Not sure what I am doing wrong here, and I am having trouble finding examples of this online, so I thought I would ask.

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

var textRef = docRef.textFrames;

var paraStyle = docRef.paragraphStyles.getByName ("LeftIndent");

var iCount = textRef.paragraphs.length; //This is the error that shows up.

for(var i=0; i<iCount; i++) {

paraStyle.applyTo(textRef.paragraphs, true);

}

redraw();

Thanks in advance!!

[Qwertyfly___ · Accepted solution]

‌at a glance I would say you need to loop textframes and within that loop paragraphs.

[djbgraphicdesign]

Thanks imagecollection, I almost have it figured out now. I still get an error every so often. I am just making random text boxes with random type in it, and sometimes I will get an error. I have no idea why the particular text box makes it have an error, when I delete it the error goes away, I am not doing anything different to it that I know of.

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

var textRef = docRef.textFrames;

var paraStyle = docRef.paragraphStyles.getByName ("LeftIndent");

for(var i=0; i<textRef.length; i++) {

    for(var j = 0; j < textRef.paragraphs.length; j++) {

    paraStyle.applyTo(textRef.paragraphs, true);   //Some of the time I get an error here when I make a text box it doesn't like?

    }

}

redraw();

[djbgraphicdesign]

Thanks again for getting me on the right track. This seems to work for me.

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

var textRef = docRef.textFrames;

var paraStyle = docRef.paragraphStyles.getByName ("ENERGETIC");

//in the dialog box make a custom option that will by pass the paragraph styles

paraStyle.characterColor = docRef.swatches[2];

for(var i=textRef.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {

  try {

   paraStyle.applyTo(textRef.paragraphs[0], true);

   textRef.createOutline()

}

catch (e) {

    textRef.remove()

    }

}

//worry about the color after the outines have been created. Then it will be a group item.

redraw();

In my template file I use for this I have it set up as a bunch of 1 line story connected text boxes so I only have 1 paragraph in each. Now with this script I can copy and paste an excel spreadsheet of names, and each name will be individually grouped and that will be super helpful.