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[js, id5] clearOverrides cells

Aug 6, 2012 5:57 AM

Hello,

I want to clear all overrides including text within tables. I thought I had the right script:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
myDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().clearOverrides();

But this gives me the following error:

Error 24:
Error string: myDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().clearO verrides()
is not a function

What is wrong with the script?

Regards, Sjoerd

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1. [Jongware],

Aug 6, 2012 6:14 AM in reply to stoereee

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stoereee wrote:

.. this gives me the following error:

Error 24:
Error string: myDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().clearO verrides()
is not a function
What is wrong with the script?

'clearOverrides' is not a function of Cells.

Try clearCellStyleOverrides.

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2. stoereee,

Aug 6, 2012 6:25 AM in reply to [Jongware]

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clearCellStyleOverrides affects on the Cell styles of a table. I want to affect the character overrides of the text within a table cell.

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3. Laubender,

Aug 6, 2012 7:03 AM in reply to stoereee

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You can use the method "clearOverrides()" on "texts" objects like "characters", "words", "paragraphs" etc. and of course the whole "texts" object of a cell:

myDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().texts[0].clearOverrides();

By that you will not clear overrides of "texts" in cells of tables that are nested inside tables…
Or tables that are nested into footnotes*…

(*I never noticed that or forgot about it, but it seems that the story editor cannot see into tables nested into footnotes!)

Uwe

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4. stoereee,

Aug 6, 2012 7:07 AM in reply to Laubender

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Thank you, this is what I needed!

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