Finding And Changing Formatting - Adobe 65009333 - InCopy CS4 - PC Manual

Text and Type Finding and changing text 47
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):
//Clear the find/change 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";
app.documents.item(0).changeText();
//Clear the find/change preferences after the search.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

Finding and changing formatting

To find and change text formatting, you set other properties of the and
findTextPreferences
objects, as shown in the following script fragment (from the
changeTextPreferences
FindChangeFormatting tutorial script):
//Clear the find/change 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 24 point text and change it to 10 point text.
app.findTextPreferences.pointSize = 24;
app.changeTextPreferences.pointSize = 10;
app.documents.item(0).changeText();
//Clear the find/change preferences after the search.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;