Script: Count number of occurrences of a style?

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March 13, 2021
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How can I count the number of occurrences of a specific style? Primarily for character styles, but I will also need it for paragraph styles. Ideally for active document and also as a choice for all chapters/files in a book.

I guess a script is required for that, but I am not that familiar with JS scritping.

Any help is very welcome.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

To cater to groups as well, try the following code. It will show a drop-down with all the names of characterstyles in the document, you can choose one and then the occurrences of that style would be searched

var list = []
for(var i = 0; i < app.documents[0].allCharacterStyles.length; i++)
	list.push(app.documents[0].allCharacterStyles[i].name)
var dialog = app.dialogs.add({name:"Choose the Character Style", canCancel:false})
var column = dialog.dialogColumns.add()
var row = column.dialogRows.add()
row.staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Character Style:"});
var dd = row.dropdowns.add({stringList:list, selectedIndex:0});
dialog.show();

app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents[0].allCharacterStyles[dd.selectedIndex]
var a = app.documents[0].findText()
alert(a.length)
app.findTextPreferences = null

-Manan

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Solo46Author

Known Participant

Wow, now we are getting close. Thanks!

The new script didn't report any errors but most styles where not counted correctly. Most styles just counted as "0".

Is it possbile to display the group name in the list as well?

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

I tested and it worked fine for me, can you send me a document with an example of the wrong count? It may be the case that styles within different groups have the same name and you choose the entry that corresponds to the wrong style(i.e. it is not the one you are trying to search).

-Manan

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Try the following script to check the count of characterstyle named Test, change the name according to your document

app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "Test"
var a = app.documents[0].findText()
alert(a.length)
app.findTextPreferences = null

for paragraphstyle change appliedCharacterStyle to appliedParagraphStyle in the code

-Manan

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

jmlevy's trick can be simplified: simply replace character style 'a' with character style 'a'.

> But I really would like to count without using a trick

Why? And is a JavaScript not a trick?

If you use Manan's trick on a Mac, remember that you must set the style as an object, not as a string:

app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.characterStyles.item ("Test")

And if the style is in a group, you have to include the style group's name.

I'd go for jmlevy's trick!

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi @Peter Kahrel, I just retested the code and I can verify that using just the string name of the style also works fine on a MAC. The warning for grouped styles though does stand, I did not cater to it to keep the example simple.

-Manan