Help Please!

[Guest]

I couldn't get an answer from the forums about the DoScript that didn't, so I wrote my own script to do the search and replaces. That worked just fine.

So I decided to move on to another script that deletes styles.

What's wrong with this?

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;

//Remove Extraneous Styles

myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Balloon Text").remove(myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Body Text"));

The documentation and Object Browser are almost useless for a beginner.

Can someone please help? I would really appreciate it.

[frameexpert]

Making a topic called "Help Please" is not very useful for users of the forum. I would suggest creating a new topic with a more relevant title.

[_Dave_Saunders_]

More to the point, what is wrong with the script you present. I gather that it doesn't work. In what manner does it fail?

Dave

[Guest]

When I run the script, I get an "Object is invalid" error message.

If I hover the cursor over the line, it shows up as a function.

Sorry--I didn't mean to be vague. I've spent almost three days trying to get three-line scripts to run and I'm really frustrated. The documentation is not terribly helpful, as it doesn't give a nice list of objects like that in Visual Basic.

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Are the style names you're using spelled exactly correctly? Are they in grouped folders?

Dave

[Guest]

Oh heck. It didn't run because I forgot to revert the file so the entire style list showed up.

So sorry.

But while I have you, can you tell me what is the Javascript equivalent of the Visual Basic On Error Resume Next?

I want to skip over styles that may not be in the current style list.

I do appreciate your time and trouble!

[_Dave_Saunders_]

There's try{}catch(e){} which I think is close to what you describe.

Dave