Switch a paragraph to another Style?

I did a lot of research on this and I can only find versions more complex of what I'm trying to do.

I just need to find all the text in the document with an applied paragraph style and change to another existing paragraph style. I did a bunch of different ways of trial and error and I am even not approach. Looks like it should be pretty easy.

Please, keep in mind that the first paragraph of style cannot be deleted from the document, there need to stay in my model.

Any suggestions? It would be a great help.

Thank you!

app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;

pStyles = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles;

pStyle1 = pStyles.itemByName ("FirstPara");

pStyle2 = pStyles.itemByName ("SecondPara");

app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = pStyle1;

app.changeTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = pStyle2;

app.activeDocument.changeText ();

... it would be a bit more complicated (not much), if paragraph styles were in a group.

HTH,

Ariel

Tags: InDesign

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