Script for Indesign find paragraph style change to table with table style

[patrickbcm]

Hello,

I hope somebody could help me with a script.

I have tab tekst with a paragraph style and I want to convert that to a table with a table style.

Kind Regards,

Patrick

[Vamitul]

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 myTable = myF.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');

[patrickbcm]

Thank you very much

Its working.

I changed tis line:

var myTable = myF.convertToTable();

to

var myT = myF.convertToTable();

[Vamitul]

yep.. sorry about the misstype.

[patrickbcm]

Is it also possible to make the width of the total tabel 45mm? in the same script?

So yes what do i have to do.

[Vamitul]

sure.. just add water.. err.. i mean the line:

myT.width=45mm

[patrickbcm · Accepted solution]

Yessss

My problem is solved

Thanks a lot.

Patrick

[Vamitul]

you are welcome.. but next time please mark the correct answer as correct...

[Sudarshan317450865g5h]

Hi, 
I tried this script, not work in v2024.
Please help. 

Thank you.

[MadMac55]

I tried to get myT.width to work.   It errored out.  I just cut & paste and even adjusted for syntax with space before and after the = sign.

[Larry G. Schneider]

Did you add the semicolon (;) at the end of the line?

[MadMac55]

I did add the semicolon.  Maybe it doesn't like that line at the end.  ??

[Larry G. Schneider]

Did you try commenting out the line

myT.clearTableStyleOverrides();

as suggested by Vamitul?

[MadMac55]

Got it to work.  

myT.width = "20p0";

Thanks for all your persistent help — and my 17 yr old for the quotation marks.   

[Larry G. Schneider]

Good to know. Aren't teenagers great?

[MadMac55]

On this level, yeah !

[Ziglen]

Ok, I have a similar problem except that the paragraph styles I am looking for and wish to apply ARE both within Style Groups that are up to 3 levels deep. What has to change in this script so it will find & replace with whichever paragraph styles are pass to the function regardless of their Style Group depths? Additionally, it's possible that certain documents may not have all the styles and/or groups that I am looking for so how do I prevent the script from failing if it encounters such?

[Sudarshan317450865g5h]

Hi Vamitul,

This script after the update of the line "var myT = myF.convertToTable();" is not working.

Thank you.

[Sudarshan317450865g5h]

Hi,

Finally, this script is working but very slow in a 350-page document. 

Thank you.

[pjgjpg]

Hi,

How did you get it to work? I get the error 

Error string: myF.convertToTable is not a function.

Thank you.

[pjgjpg]

Dear Vamitul,

I am trying to get this script to work on InDesign 18.5.2, but so far no luck. Do you know what should be updated to get this to work?

Thank you, Peter

[Manan Joshi]

Hi @pjgjpg,

I think you have got response on this in the other thread. For anyone looking for answers to this please see https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-script-for-paragraph-style-to-tables/m-...

-Manan