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Is there a way to find all inline images and apply a paragraph style

Community Beginner ,
Oct 01, 2024 Oct 01, 2024

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Hi, I have a Word doc that I imported into InDesign with a ton of images that are inline. They do not have object styles applied, but I would like to find them all and apply a paragraph style to them. Is there a way to do this either with the find/replace or a script? Thank you!

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InDesign v19.5 x64

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Community Expert , Oct 01, 2024 Oct 01, 2024

Hi Diana,

you want to apply a paragraph style to an image?

Do you want to apply the paragraph style to the paragraph the image is anchored to?

 

Then do Find Text:

<FFFC>

 

Replace with formatting:

Your desired paragraph style

 

Do that only on the one story you imported from word.

 

Hm. Or do you want to apply an object style to the inline anchored images?

That would require a different strategy; perhaps even scripting.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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Hi Diana,

you want to apply a paragraph style to an image?

Do you want to apply the paragraph style to the paragraph the image is anchored to?

 

Then do Find Text:

<FFFC>

 

Replace with formatting:

Your desired paragraph style

 

Do that only on the one story you imported from word.

 

Hm. Or do you want to apply an object style to the inline anchored images?

That would require a different strategy; perhaps even scripting.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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@Laubender Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for! Appreciate the quick response, saves me a ton of time. 🙂

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Oct 02, 2024 Oct 02, 2024

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Hi Diana,

thank you for your positive feedback.

You may wonder how I found the find pattern for text. What I did is:

[1] Selected the anchor character, not the anchored object itself, with the text tool.

[2] Checked the Info panel for the Unicode value what is selected:

Bildschirmfoto 2024-10-02 um 10.08.46.png

The Info panel says:

Unicode: 0xFFFC

 

The code after the x is the important one.

With Find Text you can find a character with a known unicode value when you surround it by brackets like that:

<FFFC>

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

 

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Wow, I would've never figured that out! Thanks for sharing, I shared this with my co-worker as well and she's so thankful!

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