Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Finding and Changing Text; Finding and Changing Text Formatting

CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Finding and Changing Text 101
Finding and changing text
The following script fragment shows how to find a specified string of text. While the following script
fragment searches the entire document, you also can search stories, text frames, paragraphs, text columns,
or any other text object. The
findText method and its parameters are the same for all text objects. (For
the complete script, see FindText.)
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
//Clear the find/change text preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Search the document for the string "Text".
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "text";
//Set the find options.
app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
var myFoundItems = myDocument.findText();
alert("Found " + myFoundItems.length + " instances of the search string.");
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
The following script fragment shows how to find a specified string of text and replace it with a different
string (for the complete script, see ChangeText):
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
//Clear the find/change text preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Set the find options.
app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
//Search the document for the string "copy" and change it to "text".
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "copy";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "text";
myDocument.changeText();
//Clear the find/change text preferences after the search.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
Finding and changing text formatting
To find and change text formatting, you set other properties of the findTextPreferences and
changeTextPreferences objects, as shown in the script fragment below (from the
FindChangeFormatting tutorial script):