Generate list of a document text paragraph/character styles?

Nothing at all? Use a script! This JavaScript does the trick:

myFile = File.saveDialog("Store this data, where?", "Plain text:*.txt");
if (myFile == null)
 exit(0);
myFile = File(myFile.fsName);
myFile.open("w");
myFile.writeln ("Character styles");
myFile.writeln ("================");
for (a=1; a
Copy, paste it into a text editor (the editor ESTK which accompanies your InDesign is good). Save it as "storeStyles.jsx" in your Script file. When recording in the right place, it appear automatically in the actions panel. Double-click it to run it.
Both character and paragraph style tables start the counter to 0, but the first character style is always "[None]", and the first paragraph of the styles are always "[None]" and "[standard paragraph].
 
         
 
         
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