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• How to use GREP to apply the character style just for the first and the second line of the paragraph?

  as the title, I just want to ask how to apply the style of character just for the 1st and 2nd line of the paragraph. Help me pls, tks!

  Can you show the screen shot with the invisible market, looks like you feedback after each line.

  So, something like this would work where I have a return forced for the linebreak (shift + return). The example on the right does not work because the line break is a return:

  

• How to avoid overwriting the italics when you apply paragraph styles?

  First of all, let me say thank you to the community of Adobe's Forum for the great help over the years! You Rock! 9 times out of 10 you nail!

  OK, so I have a long document full of italics, bold and accents. Successfully, I imported the text in MS Word and kept these text features using the import options. But now, when I go to apply paragraph styles, the italics are lost. Is it possible to implement paragraph styles so that they maintain Roman, italic, bold and also special characters like accents? Thank you!

  Hi David: I just put upward (and record) queries for search/replace that I of course after you import all text. For example, I have one that is italic in the document and it goes to a character called italic style. Once I saved queries, it is very fast to run on all the stories at the same time. And once the local formatting is managed through character styles, it is intact by assigning paragraph styles.

  ~ Barb

• retention of the words italic when you apply the paragraph style

  When you place text in InDesign, I want to apply a paragraph style, but keep some (foreign) words in italics without having to search for each word and apply the italic character style. Texts are long and not originated by myself.

  The most recommended book for beginners here on the forum is Visual QuickStart of Sandee Cohen for InDesign. The 'bible' in my opinion, for very advanced users is Real World InDesign.

• Apply the character style to the part of the paragraph

  I am inserting text in a block of text with the following code:

  story.insertionPoints [-1] .silence += pgfStr;

  story.insertionPoints [-1] .silence += "\t";

  story.insertionPoints [-1] .silence += refStr;

  story.insertionPoints [-1] .silence += "\r";

  I want to apply the character style to all of the text in refStr (only the part of this paragraph). I know how the syling paragraph applies to the entire paragraph, but not a character style. I should be grateful if you would help. Thank you!

  Hello

  Dan - BTP says:

  ... the size in points and attack can be different on each page...

  You are able to find a rule of these differences?

  ...

  What do depends on what type of rule could be defined

  ...

  The size of reference point that is 1.5 PT lower than the point size of the paragraph, whatever.

  Close to the end of the script, you can code for example:

       //     Your target is "reference" which is a text inbetween tabulator and end of story (or other criteria).
       //     So you could define:
  app.findGrepPreferences = null;      // just for clear it
  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "(?<=\\t).+\\s\\Z";     //     to catch text following tab in last para of story
       //     and after:
  mFound = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
       //     so all desired text objects are in an array "mFound".
       //     you could iterate (backward) through it:
  len = mFound.length;
  while (len-->0)      //     ">0" in case of nothing found
       mFound[len].pointSize -= 1.5;
  
       //     whatever that is - is 1.5 smaller
  

  Jarek

• Help: apply different styles of Pará to several consecutive paragraphs using the script

  Hi all

  I need to apply different styles of Pará to several consecutive paragraphs using the script, something like this (found somewhere on the net):

  myDoc = app.documents var [0];

  mySel var = app.selection [0];

  var myPStyle1 = "A";

  var myPStyle2 = 'B ';.

  you need to add 6 styles here:

  var myPStyle3 = 'C ';

  var myPStyle4 = "D";

  var myPStyle5 = 'E ';

  var myPStyle6 = 'F';

  var myPStyle7 = "G";

  var myPStyle8 = 'H ';

  the last style is not necessary in the script?

  apply style 1 paragraph 1

  mySel.appliedParagraphStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item (myPStyle1);

  apply styles to the paragraphs after selection

  style 2

  mySel.paragraphs [-1] .insertionPoints [-1] .appliedParagraphStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item (myPStyle2);

  next style

  mySel.paragraphs [-1] .insertionPoints [-1] .paragraphs [0] .insertionPoints [-1] .appliedParagrap hStyle = .nextStyle myDoc.paragraphStyles.item (myPStyle2);

  I tried a lot, but could not find the way to extend the sequence

  Sorry, no skills in the scripts still...

  all styles have "Next Style" option enabled, but I can't use ' apply style, then next style "or object styles, because I need four different sequences of these paragraph styles:

  A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H

  A-B-D-E-G-H

  A-C-D-F-G-H

  A-D-G-H

  and I don't really want to create special clones of the same style for each sequence (Keep It Simple, they say ).

  I think that this can be done through four slightly adjusted scripts...

  any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

  Sorry to be late to the party, I usually take up such things immediately.

  How about this one?

  1. no separate necessary script, it uses a small dialog box where you can choose what style to use. If I'm not mistaken, you can press a digit key on Windows to immediately select one of the items.

  2. it works down in the paragraph in that your cursor is located. It has nothing to do with the blocks of text, even if - consecutive paragraphs within a story always ignore the text frames.

  3. extensible: you can easily change the names of the styles in the table at the top of the page and the number of groups of style in the list.

  var styleLists = [
            [ "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H" ],
            [ "A", "B", "D", "E", "G", "H" ],
            [ "A", "C", "D", "F", "G", "H" ],
            [ "A", "D", "G", "H" ]
  ];
  
  var radiobutts = [];
  
  styleDialog = app.dialogs.add ({name:"Set Multiple Styles",canCancel:true});
  with (styleDialog)
  {
            with (dialogColumns.add())
            {
                      with (radiobuttonGroups.add())
                      {
                                for (i=0; i		   

• Script will not apply the paragraph style

  Hello

  I'm new to scripting in InDesign (CS3), and I'm trying to understand why the scipt below does not apply a style in the following text file? :

  < ASCII-WIN >

  < ParaStyle: Heading 1 > who are we? < ParaStyle >:

  For ease of reading, I have shortend the text file to just two lines.

  The script that I use to open and to format the text file is:

  Create a new document.

  myDocument var = app.documents.add ();

  Set the units of measure and the origin of the rule.

  myDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;

  myDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;

  myDocument.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.pageOrigin;

  Get a reference to the first master spread.

  var myMasterSpread = myDocument.masterSpreads.item (0);

  Get a reference to preferences on the margins of the first page in the Master spread.

  var myMarginPreferences = myMasterSpread.pages.item (0) .marginPreferences;

  Now set up the page margins and columns.

  myMarginPreferences.left = 4;

  myMarginPreferences.top = 70;

  myMarginPreferences.right = 70;

  myMarginPreferences.bottom = 78;

  myMarginPreferences.columnCount = 2;

  myMarginPreferences.columnGutter = 14;

  The margins of page and columns for the right-hand page.

  var myMarginPreferences = myMasterSpread.pages.item (1) .marginPreferences;

  myMarginPreferences.left = 48;

  myMarginPreferences.top = 70;

  myMarginPreferences.right = 70;

  myMarginPreferences.bottom = 78;

  myMarginPreferences.columnCount = 3;

  myMarginPreferences.columnGutter = 14;

  Adding Master Page items

  var myMasterSpread = myDocument.masterSpreads.item (0);

  var myLeftPage = myMasterSpread.pages.item (0);

  var myRightPage = myMasterSpread.pages.item (1);

  var myLeftFooter = myLeftPage.textFrames.add ();

  myLeftFooter.geometricBounds = [70, 742, 728, 528];

  myLeftFooter.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.leadingOffset;

  myLeftFooter.contents = SpecialCharacters.autoPageNumber;

  myLeftFooter.parentStory.characters.item (0) .pointSize = 11;

  myLeftFooter.parentStory.characters.item (0) .leading = 14;

  var myRightFooter = myRightPage.textFrames.add ();

  myRightFooter.geometricBounds = [48, 742, 728, 542];

  myRightFooter.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.leadingOffset;

  myRightFooter.contents = SpecialCharacters.autoPageNumber;

  myRightFooter.parentStory.characters.item (0) .pointSize = 11;

  myRightFooter.parentStory.characters.item (0) .leading = 14;

  myRightFooter.parentStory.characters.item (0) .justification = Justification.rightAlign;

  Adding master text frames

  var myLeftPage = myMasterSpread.pages.item (0);

  var myRightPage = myMasterSpread.pages.item (1);

  var myLeftTextFrame = myLeftPage.textFrames.add ();

  myLeftTextFrame.geometricBounds = [70, 70, 714, 528];

  myLeftTextFrame.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.leadingOffset;

  myLeftTextFrame.textFramePreferences.textColumnCount = 3;

  myLeftTextFrame.textFramePreferences.textColumnGutter = 14;

  Add a label to make the image easier to find later.

  myLeftTextFrame.label = "BodyTextFrame";

  var myRightTextFrame = myRightPage.textFrames.add ();

  myRightTextFrame.geometricBounds = [70, 48, 714, 542];

  myRightTextFrame.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.leadingOffset;

  myRightTextFrame.textFramePreferences.textColumnCount = 3;

  myRightTextFrame.textFramePreferences.textColumnGutter = 14;

  Add a label to make the image easier to find later.

  myRightTextFrame.label = "BodyTextFrame";

  Link the two frames using the nextTextFrame property.

  myLeftTextFrame.nextTextFrame = myRightTextFrame;

  The substitution of Master Page points and adds text

  var myTextFrame = myDocument.masterSpreads.item (0).pages.item (1).textFrames.item (0) .override (myDocument.pag es.item (0));

  Add text by setting the contents of the insertion of a string.

  In JavaScript, "\r" is a return character.

  .silence myTextFrame.insertionPoints.item (0) = "dok\r";

  Adding and applying a paragraph Style

  var myParagraphStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item ("title 1");

  try {}

  var myName = myParagraphStyle.name;

  }

  {} catch (MonErreur)

  //The style of paragraph don't have not exist, so create it.

  myParagraphStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.add ({name: 'Title 1'});

  }

  We need to create a color. Check if the color already exists.

  myColor var = myDocument.colors.item ("Green");

  try {}

  myName = myColor.name;

  }

  {} catch (MonErreur)

  //The color have not exist, so create it.

  myColor = myDocument.colors.add ({name: 'Green', model: ColorModel.process, colorValue:[100,0,100,0]});})

  }

  Now set the formatting of the paragraph style.

  myParagraphStyle.appliedFont = "Arial";

  myParagraphStyle.fontStyle = "Bold";

  myParagraphStyle.pointSize = 24;

  myParagraphStyle.spaceAfter = 24;

  myParagraphStyle.spaceBefore = 24;

  myParagraphStyle.fillColor = myDocument.colors.item ("Green");

  Apply the style to the paragraph.

  myDocument.pages.item (0).textFrames.item (0).paragraphs.item (0) .applyParagraphStyle (myParag raphStyle, true);

  You can also use:

  myDocument.pages.item (0).textFrames.item (0).paragraphs.item (0) .appliedParagraphStyle = //myParagraphStyle;

  Import a text file

  Display a standard dialog box open the file to select a text file.

  var monFichierTexte is File.openDialog ("choose a text file");.

  If you selected a text file, and if you didn't press Cancel,

  Place the file of text on the first insertion point after the title.

  If ((monFichierTexte! = "") & & (monFichierTexte!) (= null)) {}

  myTextFrame.insertionPoints.item(-1).place (myTextFile);

  }

  Place a graphic

  Display a standard dialog box open the file to select a graphic file.

  var myGraphicFile is File.openDialog ("choose a graphic file");.

  If you have selected a graphics file, and if you didn't press Cancel,

  Place the graphic file on the page.

  If ((myGraphicFile! = "") & & (myGraphicFile!) (= null)) {}

  var myGraphic = myDocument.pages.item (0) .place (myGraphicFile);

  //Since you can place multiple graphics at once, the place method

  //returns a table. For the graph you have placed, get the first

  //item in the table (beginning of JavaScript arrays with element 0).

  myGraphic = myGraphic [0];

  //Create a style object to apply to the graphic image.

  var myObjectStyle = myDocument.objectStyles.item("GraphicFrame");

  try {

  var myName = myObjectStyle.name;

  }

  catch (MonErreur) {}

  //The an object style have not exist, so create it.

  myObjectStyle = myDocument.objectStyles.add({name:"GraphicFrame"});)

  }

  myObjectStyle.enableStroke = true;

  myObjectStyle.strokeWeight = 3;

  myObjectStyle.strokeType = myDocument.strokeStyles.item("Solid");

  myObjectStyle.strokeColor = myDocument.colors.item("Green");

  //The frame containing the graphic is the parent of the graphic.

  myFrame var = myGraphic.parent;

  myFrame.applyObjectStyle (myObjectStyle, true);

  //Resize the frame to a specific size.

  myFrame.geometricBounds = [0,0,600,600];

  //Fit the graph in the image proportionally.

  myFrame.fit (FitOptions.proportionally);

  / / Next, mount the frame to the resized image.

  myFrame.fit (FitOptions.frameToContent);

  var myBounds = myFrame.geometricBounds;

  var myGraphicWidth = myBounds [3] - myBounds [1];

  //Move the graphic frame.

  var myPageWidth = myDocument.documentPreferences.pageWidth;

  var myTopMargin = myDocument.pages.item (0).marginPreferences.top;

  myFrame.move ([myPageWidth-myGraphicWidth, myTopMargin]);

  //Apply a wrap to the graphic frame.

  myFrame.textWrapPreferences.textWrapType = TextWrapTypes.boundingBoxTextWrap;

  myFrame.textWrapPreferences.textWrapOffset = [12, 24, 12, 24].

  }

  I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
  Thanks in advance.
  Ron

  Hey, Ron.

  The problem has nothing to do with your script. You can see if you attempt to place the file from indesign tagged text by hand.

  Your instinct for divide and conquer for debugging is a good - have a short text file to work with is very useful - of course this is also true for the script.

  During the validation of the scripts on the forum, please do not use the syntax insert > feature Java which lies behind the > arrow in the toolbar. Otherwise, cut and paste your script are difficult requiring manual corrections.

  Anyway, your problem is that each paragraph can have only a single paragraph style, and it's the last one that you define.

  So in your IDTT file, you set the heading 1 paragraph style, enter the content of the paragraph and then set the style of paragraph votes to zero.

  If you have included a line break before setting the style of paragraph votes to zero, you must set the None style for the following paragraph. But since you have not, it resets just the style to the current paragraph.

  In short: success back before .

• How to apply the created style as a number of list twice but the new paragraph begins number 1?

  Hi all

  I work in design and I created a style sheet that applies the list of numbers in the paragraph highlighted.

  NOOW I am facing a problem. If the same style on the same page but for another paragraph he continues with the next number in the first list of numbers, as it actually should start with number 1.

  Does anyone know how to start the next list of numbers with number 1 again even if I apply the same style of number again to a different point on the same page?

  Please let me know.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Quick fix:

  Right-click / CTRL-click (to get the context menu) on the first line of the second number list and select Restart numbering from the list of options.

  Repeat as needed for the following lists.

• (JS) How to apply the existing paragraph styles to text in a textFrame

  @I have a definition called "Header" in my Document.

  How to apply this paragraph style "Header" textFrame selected with the text "This is my head" using JS

  Please advise...

  Thank you..

  @I have a definition called "Header" in my Document.

  How to apply this paragraph style "Header" in textFrame selected with the text "This is my head" using JS

  as directed by your initial thread in question that asked you to change only the text block selected, so I gave code such as

  myDoc1 = app.selection [0];

  but myDoc1 = app.activeDocument; lets you apply the styleforwholedocument

  FYI

• Apply the paragraph style instead of runned text simply by clicking on the text box

  I'm changing the style of the text entity. Is there another way to change it to select all the text, and then set the style?

  

  IT is threaded text block (not a box!) you have to select all the blocks of text at a time in the thread (which is impossible if they are on different spreads) or you must select all of the text to apply a style.

  If the text block is not passed, you can select and apply the text.

  I do not see a problem to select all the text. Use the text tool, click in the text and the cmd/ctrl + A and apply the style. Not a problem, not a lot of work.

  A box is something like BleedBox, CropBox or something like that. Objects in InDesign are still frames or paths.

• Help with a script that detects the content in a cell and apply the cell style to line

  Hello

  
  

  I am trying to add an article to my table formatting script that is a cell with the word 'Budget' (but this can be written as ' Budget:' or ' Budget: (E) "- but without the speech marks) and apply the cell Style - SponsorCells - to all the cells of the whole line. I currently have on what it will, but it does not work:

  
  

  function checkWhichTable()
  {
  // ensure the user made a selection
  if (app.selection.length != 1)
  return null;
  var currentTable = app.selection[0];
  if (currentTable.hasOwnProperty("baseline"))
  {
  currentTable = app.selection[0].parent;
  }
  while (currentTable instanceof Cell || currentTable instanceof Row || currentTable instanceof Column)
  currentTable = currentTable.parent;
  if (!(currentTable instanceof Table))
  {
  // No table selected
  return null;
  }
  return currentTable;
  }
  app.doScript(checkUserSelection, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Process Table");
  
  
  function checkUserSelection ()
  {
  var a_table = checkWhichTable();
  if (a_table == null)
  {
  if (confirm("No table selected. Do you want to process *all* tables?") == false)
  return;
  allTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
  for (aTable=0; aTable<allTables.length; aTable++)
  {
  processTable (allTables[aTable]);
  }
  } else
  {
  processTable (a_table);
  }
  }
  function processTable(table)
  {
  // do something here!
  
  
  //Set 1st Row Height
  table.rows[0].height = "30mm";
  
  
  //Find Text in Cell and apply Cell Style to Row 
  var  
    myCellText=['Budget', 'Budget:', 'Budget: (E)'];  
   var myRegEx = new RegExp("^("+myCellText.join("|")+")$");
    for (i=0; i<table.cells.length; i++)
    {
      if (table.cells[i].texts[0].contents.match(myRegEx))
        table.cell[i].appliedCellStyle = "SponsorCells";
    }
  
  
  //end - do something here!
  }  
  

  
  

  I can get the script to apply the cell style to "SponsorCells" for each cell that contain the word 'Budget' etc, but I need cell ever on this line to have the cell style applied. I tried to re-write line 56 which applies the style to a cell, but I can't seem to make it work. Any help would be great.

  
  

  Separate on this issue, I would like to have a line of code similar to the 46 line, which sets the 1st height of lines, but I would like to say "If a cell has 'A cell Style' and then applies the value height 10 mm". If someone could result as a help of bonuses, things would be great double.

  
  

  Thanks in advance!
  

  But that could be painfully slow. To speed things up, follow these steps:

  var cells = table.cells.everyItem().getElements();
  for (var i=0; i
  It is faster, because it creates an array of cells with a call to table.cells, which is several times faster than calling table.cells. And before assigning to line 12mm height is useful to check if it is already 12 mm. checking things in InDesign and do things only when it is necessary is much more effective than simply doing things even if they are not necessary.
  		   

• Help with a script to search for text in a table cell and apply the cell style

  Hello

  I build the script which Jongware wrote in his post here http://indesignsecrets.com/tackling-tables-through-scripting.php - I am trying to create a variable in which I can add a number of different parts of the text, in this case it's different parts of the United Kingdom i.e. 'London', 'East', 'Scotland' etc. I just need the script to apply the cell Style - 'District Cell' - to any cell that contains text in the variable. Here's the script, if anyone can help I would be grateful.

  function checkWhichTable()
  {
  // ensure the user made a selection
  if (app.selection.length != 1)
  return null;
  var currentTable = app.selection[0];
  if (currentTable.hasOwnProperty("baseline"))
  {
  currentTable = app.selection[0].parent;
  }
  while (currentTable instanceof Cell || currentTable instanceof Row || currentTable instanceof Column)
  currentTable = currentTable.parent;
  if (!(currentTable instanceof Table))
  {
  // No table selected
  return null;
  }
  return currentTable;
  }
  app.doScript(checkUserSelection, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Process Table");
  
  
  function checkUserSelection ()
  {
  var a_table = checkWhichTable();
  if (a_table == null)
  {
  if (confirm("No table selected. Do you want to process *all* tables?") == false)
  return;
  allTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
  for (aTable=0; aTable<allTables.length; aTable++)
  {
  processTable (allTables[aTable]);
  }
  } else
  {
  processTable (a_table);
  }
  }
  function processTable(table)
  {
  // do something here!
  
  
  //Find Text in Cell and apply Cell Style
  var textInCell=['London', 'Scotland', 'South West'];
  for (i=0; i<table.cells.length; i++)
  {
  if (table.cells[i].texts[0].contents==textInCell)
  table.cells[i].appliedCellStyle = "District Cell";
  }
  
  
  
  
  }
  

  Hello

  Change this feature:

  function processTable(table)
  {
  //Find Text (exactly as it is) in Cell and apply Cell Style
  var
    textInCell=['London', 'Scotland', 'South West'],
    mFound, cFound;
  
  app.findGrepPreferences = null;
  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^(" + cities.join("|") + ")$";
  mFound = table.findGrep();
  while( cFound = mFound.pop() )
    cFound.parent.appliedCellStyle = "District Cell";
  }
  

  Jarek

• Automatic table row apply the paragraph style

  Hello

  I am new to scripting in Indesign. I would like to write a script to apply a paragraph on a line style in a table like this:

  1 search for the string 'XX' in a table

  2. when the 'XX' string is found, apply a paragraph style named "ParA" to the line that contains the string "XX".

  3. apply a cell style named "CellA" to the cell that contains the sting "XX".

  4. apply the style of paragraph called 'Service' to the string "XX".

  5 search for the string "XX" to the end of the table

  Can someone help me?

  Hi Syd,

  For the selected table, use the below a.

  var doc = app.activeDocument,
      _tables = app.selection[0],
      i, j, k, l, a =0, _rows,_cells, rowlen; 
  
  _rows = _tables.rows;
  for(k =0;k<_rows.length;k++)
  {
      _cells = _rows[k].cells;
      for(l =0;l<_cells.length;l++)
      {
          if(_cells[l].contents == "xx")
          {
              rowlen = _cells[l].parent.cells.length;
              a = 0;
              while(rowlen--)
              {
                    _cells[l].parent.cells[a].paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyles.item("ParA");
                    a++;
                  }
              _cells[l].paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyles.item("ParB");
              _cells[l].appliedCellStyle = doc.cellStyles.item("CellA");
              }
          }
      }
  

  Kind regards

  Cognet

• Rule - same offset for the rule above and below does not not the same distance from the paragraph

  Hello

  I'm trying to create rules above and below a type using nets of paragraph. However, as you'll see in the attached screenshot using the same offset distance for the rule above and below does not cause the same distance. The rule above and below are the po deux.125. What could go wrong? Thank you.

  

  Offsets are measured from the base line.

• Selection of parts and columns, or entire lines and apply the character style

  I am trying to apply character styles to certain parts/whole rows and columns.

  I can change individual cells with the following code...

  table = app.selection[0];
  if (table.hasOwnProperty("baseline")) table = table.parent;
  if (table instanceof Cell) table = table.parent;
  if (table instanceof Column) table = table.parent;
  if (table instanceof Row) table = table.parent;
  if (table instanceof Table)
  
  {
   table.rows[0].cells[6].texts[0].appliedCharacterStyle = "none report";
   }
  

  ... but when I try to select an entire line, I get the error 'Object does not support property or method' texts. "" "When I try one of the following two codes.

  {
   table.rows[0].cells.texts.appliedCharacterStyle = "none report";
   }
  

  {
   table.rows[0].cells.appliedCharacterStyle = "none report";
   }
  

  Anyone know how I can do the following?

  1. Select any row (or column) and apply the character style

  2. Select the last line (regardless of the number of rows in the table) and apply the character style

  3. apply the character style to specific columns (with theexception of the cells of two albums)

  Thank you!

  Hello

  Change this line:

  table.columns[a].cells.itemByRange(2,-1).texts.everyItem().appliedCharacterStyle = "chart orange";
  

  for the first 2 rows in each column

  Jarek