Globally replacing one table stroke styles with another

[bilglas]

I inherited a document with a bazillion tables, mostly composed of cells with dotted strokes. Problem is, some of those dotted strokes use the DOTTED stroke, and some of them use the JAPANESE DOTS stroke. I'm hoping there's a Find/Replace method to make ALL of them Japanese Dots. The only thing I could find is what's pictured below, and it didn't work. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Using InDesign 2018 with Windows 10. Thanks!

[TᴀW]

There isn't a way to do this with find/change. It could be scripted without too much difficulty (try asking on the scripting forum).

If the original designer used table or cell styles, you could try modifying those. I somehow doubt it, though.

Ariel

[bilglas]

Thanks ... and you're right ... no table or cell styles. And it looks like a script-writer has provided the answer!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Did you look to see if the document uses Table and/or Cell styles?

[bilglas]

Yes, I did. No, they didn't. Thanks........

[FRIdNGE]

Hi,

Something like this:

Dropbox - _FRIdNGE-0308_CellStrokeTypeChanges.jsxbin

Best,

Michel, from FRIdNGE

[bilglas]

That's EXACTLY what I need, Michel, and I'm grateful beyond words for your efforts. However, this is as far as it got:

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Talking with Uwe Laubender who pointed me on this issue:

Dropbox - _FRIdNGE-0308-0309_CellStrokeTypes.zip

Best,

Michel, from FRIdNGE