Selecting the tables

[Guest]

Hi All

Can anyone tell me the syntax for selecting the table one by one in a whole Indesign document.

Sajeev

[brettpolo]

There doesn't appear to be any 'tables' collection that's document wide, but you can iterate through all tables in a document like this:

for (var f = 0; f < app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; f++){
     for (var t = 0; t < app.activeDocument.textFrames.tables.length; t++){
          var tempTable = app.activeDocument.textFrames.tables;
     }
}

[Laubender]

@brettpolo:

Marc Autret showed a wonderful method to change table properties document wide in his blog post "On "everyItem" - Part 2" in the section "Using everyItem().properties":

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/07/on-everyitem-part-2

Don't miss part 1! A must-read for all ExtendScript-scripters…

Uwe

[Guest]

Thanks Uwe

I saw the page it really helps me

Sajeev

[Jongware]

This script will select all tables in the active document, one by one. That's not very useful -- or is it?

for (s=0; s<app.activeDocument.stories.length; s++)
{
 for (t=0; t<app.activeDocument.stories.tables.length; t++)
 {
  app.activeDocument.stories.tables.select();
 }
}

[Guest]

Thanks Jongware

It really works great . I have completed the task.

Sajeev