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nikicreates
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August 7, 2014
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Finding and replacing Paragraph Style of last line in a bulletted list?

  • August 7, 2014
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Hi,

I'm wondering if there's a way (or a script out there) to automate finding the last item of a bulletted list and apply a paragraph style? I'm dealing with multiple, hundred-page documents with tons of bulletted lists, and currently I'm applying a paragraph style to each of these in order to increase the space below the list and the top of the next paragraph.

Suggestions?

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Correct answer Kai Rübsamen

It’s not clear to me, if the bullets are formatted at this time or how you indentify them.

But try the following:

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;  


app.findGrepPreferences.properties = { bulletsAndNumberingListType: ListType.BULLET_LIST }; 


var allFounds = app.findGrep();




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


    var curFound = allFounds;


    var allParas = curFound.paragraphs;


    var nParas = allParas.length;


    allParas[nParas-1].appliedParagraphStyle = "bulletLast";


}




app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; 

–Kai

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Kai Rübsamen
Kai RübsamenCorrect answer
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August 7, 2014

It’s not clear to me, if the bullets are formatted at this time or how you indentify them.

But try the following:

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;  


app.findGrepPreferences.properties = { bulletsAndNumberingListType: ListType.BULLET_LIST }; 


var allFounds = app.findGrep();




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


    var curFound = allFounds;


    var allParas = curFound.paragraphs;


    var nParas = allParas.length;


    allParas[nParas-1].appliedParagraphStyle = "bulletLast";


}




app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; 

–Kai

    Obi-wan Kenobi
    Obi-wan Kenobi
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    August 7, 2014

    Hi Kai,

    I do it with a little grep search. 

    idjev
    idjev
    Known Participant
    March 8, 2018

    Ah, this writing for the styles was not intended, since I saved the names already in the variables at the beginning of the script.

    Limitation: This will not work with paragraph styles in groups at the moment and: What if there is no list instead there are typed bullets followed by a tab. So a little GREP-search could be included. Your idea with the UI sounds interesting. Since I have no idea how to do this and since I never built a UI before, this could be my little first one ;-) In the meantime the corrected version.

    var bulletStyle = "allBullets",  
    

        firstBulletStyle = "firstBullet",  
    

        lastBulletStyle = "lastBullet";  
    

      
    

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;      
    

    app.findGrepPreferences.properties = { bulletsAndNumberingListType: ListType.BULLET_LIST };     
    

    var allFounds = app.findGrep();    
    

          
    

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

            var curFound = allFounds;    
    

            var allParas = curFound.paragraphs;  
    

            // whole list  
    

            allParas.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle = bulletStyle;  
    

            // first bullet  
    

            allParas[0].appliedParagraphStyle = firstBulletStyle;  
    

            // last bullet  
    

            allParas[allParas.length-1].appliedParagraphStyle = lastBulletStyle;    
    

    }    
    

          
    

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;   

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