Break links to style

[Veronica22551996i6fw]

Is there a way to break links to style on multiple pages at a time? I have to move pages from other documents into a document and I don't want to bring the styles in with it. 

[Diane Burns]

If the text is threaded, of course, you can Select All and choose Break Links from the Para Styles menu. If the frames are not threaded, I think you'll have to select each frame. You can select multiple text frames and Break Links on all of them at once, provided they are not threaded to another page/spread. 

The only other thing I can think of is to search out whether there's a script to automate further.

[rob day]

Hi @Veronica22551996i6fw , I don’t think there is a break link to style command in the scripting API, but you can select all the paragraphs and invoke the menu item via scripting, so you can try this:

var doc = app.activeDocument
var bls =  app.menuActions.itemByID(8500)

for(var i=0; i < doc.stories.length; i++){  
    var s = doc.stories.item(i);  
    for(var j=0; j < s.paragraphs.length; j++){  
        var p=s.paragraphs[j]; 
        p.select()
        if(bls.enabled){  
            bls.invoke();  
        }; 
    }  
}