To find the overridden paragraph directly and rename to a different paragraph style name

[Saravanan RM]

Hi ! Can anyone guide me to identify the overridden paragraphs directly and rename to a different paragraph style name.

[Laubender]

Hi @Saravanan RM ,

do you have any experience in writing scripts for InDesign with ExtendScript (JavaScript) ?

One could try to check every textStyleRange and use method textHasOverrides().

Available with InDesign CC 2015 version 11 and above. See:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#TextStyleRange.html#d1e509279__d1e517290

Or/and check property styleOverridden.

But of course there are practical issues.

No idea why you want to rename an applied paragraph style.

Can you tell in more detail why you want to do this?

The second thing: What would you like to do if there are different overrides in one single paragraph?

You'd need a custom written function to compare the overrides.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

[Saravanan RM]

Hi Laubender, Thanks for your reply.

I don't have any experience is scripting and please find my below comments on your queries

To rename applied paragraph style with override will be used to retain the local formating in the later stage while reimporting the xml(import using merge content option).

i.e. Each paragraph override has to use different name despite any number of local overrides.

[Laubender]

"i.e. Each paragraph override has to use different name despite any number of local overrides."

Hm. But doesn't that mean you need a duplicate of a given paragraph style with a new name for every override that is unique with a text style range? Note: A text style range is a consecutive range of text objects like a range of characters with exactly the same formatting.

Writing such a script is a huge task, I think.

Nothing one can do in a few minutes. So I would suggest you will hire a scripter for this.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )