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Article #16369[VP] Searching for words that are in CAPS in all pages of a doc.
From: Guy Verville
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:01
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:01
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I have a lenghty bibliography where the author's last names have been put in uppercase. I want to search all those uppercase names and apply a special character style to all the letters to them except the first (mimicking a Small Caps). The Character Style is called "BiblioCaps".
I can change the first page of the bibliography, but my PageLoop doesn't work. It's certainly a misunderstanding of how to navigate through a doc. Here is my routine. Perhaps there is a better way to do this...
* ************************************* Dim WordsCount, PagesCount, ParagraphsCount, CharactersCounti, j, k, number, letter
Set myindesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.2.0")
Set MyPages = myindesign.ActiveDocument.Pages
PagesCount = MyPages.count
For i = 1 to PagesCount
'Set the Base TextFrame
Set MyActualTextFrame = MyPages.Item(1).TextFrames.Item(1)
'Get Paragraphs count in the TextFrame
Set MyParagraphs=MyActualTextFrame.Paragraphs
ParagraphsCount=MyParagraphs.count
'Paragraph Loop
For l=1 to ParagraphsCount
'Get WordsCount
Set MyWords = MyParagraphs.Item(l).TextWords
WordsCount= MyWords.Count
'Words Loop
For j = 1 to WordsCount
'This is the word
letter = MyWords.item(j).TextContents
'Get the Word Lenght
CharactersCount=Len(MyWords.Item(j).Textcontents)
'If word is long enough
If CharactersCount > 3 Then
'To avoid testing capitalized letter, begins with the second letter of the world
number=Asc(Mid(letter,2,1))
If number > 64 and number <91 or number >191 and number <222 Then
For k=2 to CharactersCount
MyWords.Item(j).Characters.Item(k).CharacterStyle="BiblioCaps"
Next
CharactersCount=0
End If
End If
Next
Next
Next
MsgBox "Finish"
* **************************************
Thanks for your help!
Guy
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