Find/Change words (with GREP) and apply a style...

[Marcos_Suárez]

I need a Script for Find/Change words with GREP, and apply a paragraph style...

Thanks...

[Jongware]

FindChangeByList.jsx

FindChangeByList.applescript

They come installed with your InDesign.

[Marcos_Suárez]

Thanks...

But I need chage all italic/bold words to character styles..., but with a script

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

Use attached script.

Or

Use Jongware script http://www.jongware.com/binaries/preptext.zip

Shonky

[Kasyan Servetsky · Accepted solution]

Hi Marcos,

If you want the script to create character styles: Bold , Italic, Bold Italic, etc, and replace local formatting with these styles, use scripts in post #3.

But if you want find and change words, or/and replace local formatting with styles defined by you, use FindChangeByList script.

If the latter, I recommend you to download and install Record Find Change script (written by Martin Fisher).

Then choose settings you need in Find-Change dialog – make sure they work as expected – and run Record Find Change script. A Notepad/TextEdit file will pop up with a line containing the recorded setting. Copy it, open FindChangeList.txt, delete the contents of this file and paste the line you just copied (or add it to the bottom of the file).

Repeat the process for all find-change operations you need.

Finally run FindChangeByList.jsx to make all changes in one go.

However, while using Record Find Change script, you may encounter a problem: it doesn’t record paragraph and character styles placed inside a group. But you can write references to such styles like so:

appliedParagraphStyle:app.activeDocument.paragraphStyleGroups.item("Style Group 1"). paragraphStyles.item("Paragraph Style 1")

Kasyan

[Marcos_Suárez]

Thank you very much Kasyan and Shonkyin...

[User799]

This is great info! I had downloaded the script yesterday, but when I got the output "findchangestrings.txt" file I didn't know where to put the info (into the findchangebylist.txt file). Of course, this is the first script I've ever used. When I did finally figure that out, it seemed to me, though that the "recordFindChange" script added a text section and a grep section automatically in the txt output, although you're only doing one or the other. So the first time I ran the FindChangeByList.jsx script, having copied everything from the output txt file into the FindChangeByList.txt file, I got an error. Since I'd had a grep search, not a text one, I just deleted the text line, and the script worked wonderfully.

Now my problem is that the RecordFindChange script always returns only a blank FindChangeStrings.txt file. What might I be doing wrong today?

[Indesigners_es]

I'm want to apply some styles in a group, where do I have to add this: appliedParagraphStyle:app.activeDocument.paragraphStyleGroups.item("St yle Group 1"). paragraphStyles.item("Paragraph Style 1")? I guess is in the .jsx but where...I have no idea!

Thanx