Apply custom Paragraph Style to [No Paragraph]

[Pete_Stan]

Hi all,

I am looking for examples how to apply own Body Text Paragraph Style to [No Paragraph] Style. The Body Text is a part of Group EN:

Normally I would use Find/Change dialog but I believe there is a better way with scripting?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

var myDoc = app.activeDocument,
myParaStylesGroup = myDoc.paragraphStyleGroups.item('EN'),
myParaStyle = myParaStylesGroup.paragraphStyles.item('Body Text');
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles[0];
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myParaStyle;
myDoc.changeGrep();
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

(^/)

[Pete_Stan]

Works!

I was tinkering :

try{ 
app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].insertionPoints[0].select(); 
var pStyleGroup = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName('EN');
var titleStyle = pStyleGroup.paragraphStyles.itemByName('Body Text')
app.activeDocument.paragraphs[0].applyParagraphStyle (app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item ("Body Text", true));
}catch(e){};

How about 'try': if for instance my Paragraph style will be different and I don't wanna see the error thrown by JavaScript? (will manually apply the style with that different name afterwards)

[Laubender]

Pete Stan wrote:

… Normally I would use Find/Change dialog but I believe there is a better way with scripting?

Hi Pete,

why do you believe that scripting is a better way?
Would you like to add something to the process by scripting what Find/Change cannot do?

Regards,
Uwe

[Pete_Stan]

Yes, To make my life easier!

I have already a script that places a Word Document, auto-flows on A4, runs Jongware's PrepText, asks me to load the styles and now I can skip the step I was performing manually