Need script for find and change text

[John_J_David]

We have some set of texts that need to find and change in the entire InDesign CS4 document rather than doing manually. Kindly help me out to do the same successfully.

for e.g. find text - "mam" and replace with "man".

[tomaxxi]

Hey!

This will do what you want:

app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "mam";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "man";
//this will show changes count
alert(app.activeDocument.changeText().length);

app.activeDocument.changeText();

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tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

Try below code if you have multiple texts for replace.

replaceText ("mam", "man");
replaceText ("mam1", "man1");


function replaceText (input, output)
{
     app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = input;
     app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = output;
     app.activeDocument.changeText();
     app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
}

Shonky

[John_J_David]

Thanks for sending us the wonderful script. I need one more help on this.

I need to find the character with the specific font and change to specific font

or

I need to find the character with the specific style and change to specific style

Please help the same to do successfully.

[tomaxxi]

Hey!

This is little extended version of script that Shonky wrote. You can search/find for text, paragraph styles, character styles, or in combination.

findChange(/*find text*/ 'mam', /*change to text*/ 'man', /*old style*/ '', /*new style*/ '', /*old char style*/ 'Bold Text', /*new char style*/ 'Extended Bold Text');

function findChange (findWhat, changeTo, findStyle, changeStyle, findChrStyle, changeChrStyle){
     app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     if(findWhat)app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = findWhat;
     if(changeTo)app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = changeTo;
     if(findStyle)app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = findStyle;
     if(changeStyle)app.changeTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = changeStyle;
     if(findChrStyle)app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = findChrStyle;
     if(changeChrStyle)app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = changeChrStyle;
     app.activeDocument.changeText();
     app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}

Hope it helps!

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tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

[SumitKumar]

Hi Marijan Tompa,

Can you help me?

How to find superscript?

My complete script is here:

replace ("(.+)", "Italic", "", "SRF Cyan", "", "SRF_it");

replace ("(.+)", "Italic", "", "", "", "_it");

replace ("(.+)", "Bold", "", "SRF Cyan", "", "SRF_bld");

replace ("(.+)", "Bold", "", "", "", "_bld");

//replace ("(.+)", "", "position", "", "_^$1", "");

//replace ("", "", "", "", "", "");

function replace(findWhat, fontStyle, position, fillColor, changeTo, chrStyle){

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    if(findWhat)app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = findWhat;

    if(fontStyle)app.findGrepPreferences.fontStyle = fontStyle;

//    if(position)app.findGrepPreferences.postion = Position.SUPERSCRIPT;

    if(fillColor)app.findGrepPreferences.fillColor = fillColor;

    if(changeTo)app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = changeTo;

    if(chrStyle)app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyleGroups.item("03_BodText").characterStyles.item(chrStyle);

    app.activeDocument.changeGrep();

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    };

[ramkumar_vp]

Hey,

Use the following code:

replaceTextByFont ("mam", "man");
replaceTextByStyle ("mam", "man");

function replaceTextByStyle (input, output)
{
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
    app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = input;
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("SampleFindStyle");
    app.changeTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("SampleReplaceStyle");
    app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = output;
    app.activeDocument.changeText();
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}

function replaceTextByFont (input, output)
{
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
    app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = input;
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Arial Bold");
    app.changeTextPreferences.appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Arial BoldItalic");
    app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = output;
    app.activeDocument.changeText();
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}

Regards,

Ramkumar .P

[tomaxxi]

Hey Ramkumar!

I think it's not good idea to change applied font because it will override applied paragraph/character style. Also, "Arial Bold" needs to be "Arial\tBold" and "Arial BoldItalic" needs to be "Arial\tBold Italic". You need "\t" because it separates font family name and font style.

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tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

[SumitKumar]

Hi Ramkumar,

Please help me, how to find superscript? My complete script is here:

replace ("(.+)", "Italic", "", "SRF Cyan", "", "SRF_it");

replace ("(.+)", "Italic", "", "", "", "_it");

replace ("(.+)", "Bold", "", "SRF Cyan", "", "SRF_bld");

replace ("(.+)", "Bold", "", "", "", "_bld");

//replace ("(.+)", "", "position", "", "_^$1", "");

//replace ("", "", "", "", "", "");

function replace(findWhat, fontStyle, position, fillColor, changeTo, chrStyle){

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    if(findWhat)app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = findWhat;

    if(fontStyle)app.findGrepPreferences.fontStyle = fontStyle;

//    if(position)app.findGrepPreferences.postion = Position.SUPERSCRIPT;

    if(fillColor)app.findGrepPreferences.fillColor = fillColor;

    if(changeTo)app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = changeTo;

    if(chrStyle)app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyleGroups.item("03_BodText").characterStyles.item(chrStyle);

    app.activeDocument.changeGrep();

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

    };

Regards,

Sumit

[cy_auyeung]

Hi,

It is very useful but it doesn't work in CS6? Help!

Thanks

cy