Replace overset text

[Guest]

When I search and replace text in a specific text box I have to make it bigger since I can´t get it to replace overset text.

Is it possible or do you do the same?

[Jongware]

That is correct; if you use changeText on a text frame, it only works on what's visible.

But it should be possible to use the same changeText on the entire story in that text box (yourFrame.stories[0]) -- that will include overset text.

[Guest]

textFrame.stories doesn´t seem to work, only application has stories as far as I can tell. But it does work to loop the paragrahs of the textframe and it seems to be fast enough for me.

var my_frame = app.documents[0].selection[0];

app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "find";

app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "replace";

for(i = 0; i < my_frame.paragraphs.length; i++) {

    my_frame.paragraphs.changeText();

}

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

You need to use my_frame.parentStory instead of my_frame.stories.

Here is working code.

var my_frame = app.documents[0].selection[0];
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "find";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "replace";
my_frame.parentStory.changeText()

Shonky

[Jongware]

Of course

Each story can have multiple text frames but each frame can only be associated with one single story ... (I should have checked the Help.)