Select 2 first words of a paragraph

[Juliana5C96]

Good morning, I need to select and italicize the first two words of each paragraph - however it just can´t be about selecting the "italic" form of the font, because the one I have to use doesn´t have the italic, so it has to be forced italic at x degrees... but I don´t know how to work with scripts... Help! And thank you

[Peter Spier · Accepted solution]

You don't need a script for this, just a nested character style as part of the paragraph style definition.

In the Paragraph Style definition dialog go to the Drop Caps and Nested Styles section and create a new Nested Style  then click the drop-down in the new style that shows what character style is to be applied and choose New Character Style (unless you've already defined one to apply the "italics" elsewhere, in which case you can simply choose that). Define the new Character Style with the appropriate slant, then set the nested style to apply through 2 words.

[Juliana5C96]

Thank you very much, works like a charm.