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From VB ObjectBrowser:

Property FindWhat As Variant
    Member of InDesign.FindTextPreference
    The FindTextPreference to find. as String or idNothingEnum enumerator

Property ChangeTo As Variant
    Member of InDesign.ChangeTextPreference
    The replacement ChangeTextPreference. as String or idNothingEnum enumerator

so you can't apply FontStyle and CharStyle to Properties awaiting for String type

You need to set formatting you looking for to fontStyle and appliedCharacterStyle

Property FontStyle As Variant
    Member of InDesign.FindTextPreference
    The name of the font style. as String or idNothingEnum enumerator

Property AppliedCharacterStyle As Variant
    Member of InDesign.ChangeTextPreference
    The character style to search for or change to. as String, CharacterStyle or idNothingEnum enumerator

There is no "appliedFontStyle" in VB so I'm not sure if it will be in JS ...

here is example in VB:

myInDi.FindTextFreferences.FontStyle = "Italic"
myInDi.ChangeTextPreferences.AppliedCharacterStyle = myDoc.CharacterStyles.Item("Italic")

robin

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Hi robin,

Thanks for your kind support. Now the script works fine. I have one more concern in this script, i have find the superscript and subscript texts and replace it with created 'sup' & 'sub' character styles. But my script doesn't find the text of superscript & subscript. Find my full script here. Please check it and help me for this.

//To find Font style and replacing it with corresponding character styles
//Script for CS3

#target InDesign
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var Itl = myDoc.characterStyles.add({name: "Itl", fontStyle: "Italic"});
var sup = myDoc.characterStyles.add({name: "sup", position: Position.superscript});
var sub = myDoc.characterStyles.add({name: "sub", position: Position.subscript});

app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = "Italic";
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = Itl;
app.documents.item(0).changeText();

app.findTextPreferences.findTextPosition = Position.superscript;
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = sup;
app.documents.item(0).changeText();

app.findTextPreferences.findTextPosition = Position.subscript;
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = sub;
app.documents.item(0).changeText();

function setupFindText(find, change, foots, hidLayers, lockedLayers, lockedStories, masters) {
  app.findTextPreferences = null;
  app.changeTextPreferences = null;
  try { app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = find } catch(e) {};
  try {app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = change } catch(e) {};
  app.findChangeTextOptions.properties = {
    includeFootnotes:(foots == null ? false : foots),
    includeHiddenLayers:(hidLayers == null ? false : hidLayers),
    includeLockedLayersForFind:(lockedLayers == null ? false : lockedLayers),
    includeLockedStoriesForFind:(lockedStories == null ? false : lockedStories),
    includeMasterPages:(masters == null ? false : masters),
    includeCaseSensitive:(caseSensitive == null ? false : caseSensitive)
  }
}

Regards
Thiyagu

The fontStyle is still set to 'italic'.

You might want to start by setting all findTextPreferences to nothing, because it will continue with what was set the last time you searched.

Hi jongware,

Wow! its working fine. What you said is exactly right. Thanks for your kind help. Have a nice day.

Regards
Thiyagu