Importing Word character styles

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I... just sorta learned that Word manages character styles a bit better than I knew. 'Nuf sed.

When character styles are imported, they have a little 'imported' glyph in the list. The only way I can find to make this tag go away is to edit the style, at a minimum, to tweak its name. Is there an easier way to clear this marker — when, for example, the style is fine as-is, including name?

—

[Eugene Tyson]

You just have to tweak the style - like hitting the underline option or something and then reverting it. Any alteration makes it go away.

I don't know if there's a way to script this - to make the tag disappear, that would be cool.

But I typically have a folder of the styles - say, a folder called Text, and in that I have bold, underline, italic, bold italic.

Imported word styles, I delete them and/or map them to the Text folder.

Works for me and keeps my styles clean and not introducing something inherited from Word.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Hi @James Gifford—NitroPress and @Eugene Tyson:

There is a script in this thread.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/remove-style-icons/m-p/1115924

That said, like Eugene, I use style mapping on import, which helps me differentiate between the styles I want and the styles I can get rid of quickly.

~Barb

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Yes, mapping styles on import is defintely the correct approach. I was mostly wondering if I had missed some sort of 'clear' or 'reset' option on a quick drag-and-drop placement. Sometimes those things hide deep in context menus and the like.

But that's a hack, more or less, and mapping styles is the right approach. Thanks, both of you.

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[Laubender]

Hi James,

thankfully Barb discovered Harbs' scripting solution!

I'll give you something to play based on Harb's idea:

( function()
{

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;

app.doScript
(
	removeImportedFromCharStyles, 
	ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, 
	[],
	UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 
	"Remove \"Imported\" Icon from Styles | SCRIPT"
);

function removeImportedFromCharStyles()
{

	var allStyles = app.documents[0].allCharacterStyles;

	for( var n=0; n<allStyles.length; n++ )
	{
		if( allStyles[n].imported )
		{
			var currentName =allStyles[n].name ;
			var dup = allStyles[n].duplicate() ;
			allStyles[n].remove( dup );
			dup.name = currentName ;
		};
	};

};

}() )

You can undo the result of this script in one go.

Focus is on character styles.

If you want do a variation where paragraph styles are the target simply exchange this line:

var allStyles = app.documents[0].allCharacterStyles;

with:

var allStyles = app.documents[0].allParagraphStyles;

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )