Adobe 0046100128056 Scripting Guide - Page 101
Finding and changing text, Finding and changing text formatting, string for the complete script
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CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Finding and Changing Text 101 Finding and changing text The following script fragment shows how to find a specified string of text. While the following script fragment searches the entire document, you also can search stories, text frames, paragraphs, text columns, or any other text object. The findText method and its parameters are the same for all text objects. (For the complete script, see FindText.) var myDocument = app.activeDocument; //Clear the find/change text preferences. app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; //Search the document for the string "Text". app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "text"; //Set the find options. app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false; var myFoundItems = myDocument.findText(); alert("Found " + myFoundItems.length + " instances of the search string."); app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; The following script fragment shows how to find a specified string of text and replace it with a different string (for the complete script, see ChangeText): var myDocument = app.activeDocument; //Clear the find/change text preferences. app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; //Set the find options. app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false; app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false; //Search the document for the string "copy" and change it to "text". app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "copy"; app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "text"; myDocument.changeText(); //Clear the find/change text preferences after the search. app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; Finding and changing text formatting To find and change text formatting, you set other properties of the findTextPreferences and changeTextPreferences objects, as shown in the script fragment below (from the FindChangeFormatting tutorial script):