Is it possible to find/change "Justification > Word Spacing" settings?

[Joe Seven]

I have a long document and am trying to track down any instances of paragraphs with word spacing that has more than "100% Desired"

Anyone know if this is possible? 

[vinny38]

Hi

Go to "Preferences > Composition" then tick "justification Violations" (or something like that , my INDD isn't in english)

It will highlight from light to darker yellow all justification infractions.

regards

[Joe Seven]

Thanks but I am referring to the these settings:

Paragraph panel > Justification > Word Spacing

I would like to find and change these settings throughout my document via the Find/Change function

[Steve Werner]

Unless it can be done with GREP (I'm not a GREP expert), the Text tab of Find/Change cannot find stretches of text with a particular Justification setting. If you had applied the Justification setting in a paragraph style, you could replace one paragraph style with another one with different Justification settings.

[Peter Spier]

GREP finds characters, not justification settings, so the short answer is these settings are not accessible through Find/Change.

You might be able to access them through scripting.

[vinny38]

Ah well...

That was way too easy

Unfortunately, I don't think that would be possible through the Find/change panel...

I was thinking about a custom preflight profile, but unfortunately there is no such option, at least in CS6 which is my version. Maybe in the newest ones ?

[Steve Werner]

No such change in newer InDesign preflight profiles.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

If you want to find all paras with a "word spacing more than 100% desired" and, e.g. apply them "a word spacing 95% desired", try this:

var myParas = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
var mydesiredWordSpacing_0 = 100;
var mydesiredWordSpacing_1 = 95;
for (p = 0; p < myParas.length; p++)
    {
        var mydesiredWordSpacing = myParas
.desiredWordSpacing;
        if (mydesiredWordSpacing > mydesiredWordSpacing_0) {
            mydesiredWordSpacing = mydesiredWordSpacing_1;
            myParas
.desiredWordSpacing = mydesiredWordSpacing;
        }
    }
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