Apply new style to following paragraph throughout document

[The Patina]

Hi all

Hopefully this is simple!…

I have document with a tonne of Heading 3 styles and I need to ensure that the first following paragraph - and only that first paragraph -  gets converted to a separately created untabbed body paragraph style.

How do I issue a search and replace command to achieve that?

NB: there are over 700 of these Heading 3 + first following paragraph instances.

Many thanks in advance for any guidance 🙂

VBW

M

[Mike Witherell]

It is probably too late to edit your Head style and setup the Next Style as Body.

Try a script from Stephan Moebius

HilfDirSelbst

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

A very short way! …

var myParas = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(),
P = myParas.length,  p,
myPStylesList = ["Blue", "Red"]; // Names of the 2 Para Styles to be played!
for ( p = 0; p < P; p++ ) if ( myParas
.appliedParagraphStyle.name == myPStylesList[0] ) myParas[p+1].appliedParagraphStyle = myPStylesList[1];  

Best,

Michel, from FRIdNGE

[The Patina]

Hi Michel

That worked brilliantly. Thank you so much!

The final script was:

var myParas = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(),  
P = myParas.length,  p,  
myPStylesList = ["Heading 3", "Untabbed"];  
for ( p = 0; p < P; p++ ) if ( myParas
.appliedParagraphStyle.name == myPStylesList[0] ) myParas[p+1].appliedParagraphStyle = myPStylesList[1];

Very best wishes to both you and Michael for the replies

Mark

[AnneMarie Concepcion]

Michel, nice!