JavaScript change first instance of paragraph style with another

Question

I need help writing a JavaScript that will search for the first instance of a paragraph style in each text box and then replace it with another paragraph style. If there's a way to do that with a grep, that'd be good too. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Some work points you should face developing this

• 1st all the script inherits the Application class.

• get the page you are working on - class Page

• Get all the pageItems - ItemPage or PageItem (I don't remember now)

• Loop through pageItems and get all the textframes within the document - TextFrame Class

• Using a loop get from all the textframes the first paragraph. something like

  pageItem[i].textFrame[i].paragraph[0]

  • Put the paragraph in a variable, use the documentation on the script and change the desired styles

A good reading reference for you

Jongware page