GREP Question

[shandmedia]

Have a job - example attached where the Tel No has a paragraph style which gives it a rule to divide entries in a directory.

However, in some cases, where the TelNo style is immediately followed by the Category style, I want to apply a TelNo with no rule style.

Is there a GREP or other method to do this throughout the book or do I need to do it manually?

Example attached

Thanks!

[Anantha Prabu G]

Hi,

Try tis code!!!

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "H1"; // Change Your style
var Found = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
for (i=0; i<Found.length; i++)  
{  
if (Found.paragraphs.previousItem(Found.paragraphs[0]).appliedParagraphStyle == app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Ph_No_Rule")) // Change Your style
// Remove Rule
  Found.paragraphs.previousItem(Found.paragraphs[0]).ruleBelow = false;  
}  

Thanks,

Prabu

[shandmedia]

Thanks for your help - really appreciate it - throwing up a syntax error though - see image.

I'm a bit of a novice at this level so please bear with me...

[shandmedia]

When I remove the offending quote marks I get the following error

[tpk1982]

Recopy Anand script and change the two paragraph style names again..don't delete any quotes

Make sure both are not in STYLE GROUP

[shandmedia]

Still getting this error

This is my script where Tel is the first para style and TelNoRule is the second.

var myDoc = app.activeDocument; 

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; 

app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = “Tel”;  

var Found = app.activeDocument.findGrep(); 

for (i=0; i<Found.length; i++)   

{   

var myPrevious = Found.paragraphs.previousItem(Found.paragraphs[0] );   

        if (myPrevious.isValid && myPrevious.appliedParagraphStyle.name == “TelNoRule”)  

        {   

            Found.paragraphs.previousItem(Found.paragraphs[0] ).ruleBelow = false;   

        }   

    }   

[tpk1982]

It is working fine here..

Make sure your style look like this..

Not this

[Anantha Prabu G]

Hi,

Its working fine here. i don't get any error message.

thanks

[shandmedia]

Thanks again,

My styles aren't in a group - I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong as it looks the same as yours.

To run the script I'm using TextEdit to create the file and dropping into Scripts Panel in ID folder. Running it from there - is that correct?

[Anantha Prabu G]

Hi,

save the .jsx format or run the Extend Script toolkit

thanks

[Anantha Prabu G]

[Anantha Prabu G]

Hi, Any updates on tis...?

[shandmedia]

I've had to crack on with some other work but I'm using the toolkit now - I'll try again later and let you know.

Thanks again!

[Anantha Prabu G]

Hi,

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "H1"; // Change Your style
var Found = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
for (i=0; i<Found.length; i++)  
{  
 var myPrevious = Found.paragraphs.previousItem(Found.paragraphs[0] );  
        if (myPrevious.isValid && myPrevious.appliedParagraphStyle.name == "Ph_No_Rule") // Change your style
        {  
            Found.paragraphs.previousItem(Found.paragraphs[0] ).ruleBelow = false;  
        }  
    }  

Prabu

[uniqued_tol]

Try this;
Straight double quotation marks