Indesign script for Paragraph Style to Tables

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Dear all,

I am trying to get the script to work that was posted here in 2013: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/script-for-indesign-find-paragraph-style-change-...

So far, it does not work, as I suspect it is outdated. Can anyone help me get it to work on INDD 18.5.2? Basically I would like to convert all paragraph that have a certain paragraph style to tables, and apply a table style.

So far, I get this error:

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best, Peter

[brian_p_dts]

myF needs to be myF[i]

Iterators were stripped in old forum migration

[Mike Witherell]

Did you try putting that old script in a subfolder (under the Scripts folder) named "Version 9.0 Scripts"?

[Manan Joshi]

I think the script would execute fine on the current version of InDesign as well. Two things to change though

• The change suggested by @brian_p_dts 
• Look at the comment https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/script-for-indesign-find-paragraph-style-change-.... Make that change of variable name as well.

So the correct code would be

function main() {
          app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
          app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "name_of_your_style" //won't work it it's in a style group
          var myF = app.activeDocument.selection[0].parentStory.findText(true); //make sure you are inside a text frame when running the script
          for (var i = 0; i < myF.length; i++) {
                    var myT = myF[i].convertToTable();
                    myT.appliedTableStyle = "Name_of_your_Table_style";
                    myT.clearTableStyleOverrides(); //this line might need to be commented out, see how it works with or without it
          }
          alert("All done!\nYou can go outside and play now!");
}
app.doScript('main()', undefined, undefined, UndoModes.entireScript, 'AllToTables');

-Manan