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Find/change preferences
Before searching for text, you probably will want to clear find and change preferences, to make sure the
settings from previous searches have no effect on your search. You also need to set a few find and change
preferences to specify the text, formatting, regular expression, or glyph you want to find and/or change. A
typical find/change operation involves the following steps:
1. Clear the find/change preferences. Depending on the type of find/change operation, this can take one
of the following three forms:
//find/change text preferences
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//find/change grep preferences
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//find/change glyph preferences
app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
2. Set up find/change parameters.
3. Execute the find/change operation.
4. Clear find/change preferences again.
Finding text
The following script fragment shows how to find a specified string of text. While the script fragment
searches the entire document, you also can search stories, text frames, paragraphs, text columns, or any
other text object. The
complete script, see FindText.)
//Clear the find/change 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 = app.documents.item(0).findText();
alert("Found " + myFoundItems.length + " instances of the search string.");
method and its parameters are the same for all text objects. (For the
findText
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