: Indesign script to apply paragraph style to alternating paragraphs I have an Indesign document with the following structure: paragraph 1 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah paragraph
I have an Indesign document with the following structure:
paragraph 1 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
paragraph 2 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
paragraph 3 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
paragraph 4 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
paragraph 5 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
. . . and so on...
Now I need to leave the first paragraph as is but apply paragraph styles to all the subsequent paragraphs in the following pattern:
paragraph 2: style A
paragraph 3: style B
paragraph 4: style A
paragraph 5: style B
. . . and so on (alternating pattern)...
I know this can be automated using scripts and I also know a bit of programming in general (JavaScript) but I have no idea how to go about doing this in Indesign. Any suggestion?
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They covered this in my last User's Group meeting.
First, you have to set up your paragraph style's Next Style. If you want the paras to go Style A -> B -> A -> B etc, you have to have paragraph A's next style be Paragraph B, and Paragraph B's next style must be style A. Your styles must create a loop. You can do this with any number of styles.
Select ALL the text that you want styled (you can use GREP for this if you need to).
Right-click and select Apply Name then Next Stlye (and leave overrides if there is local formatting)
In the demo, the instructor did this with a 10-page list of names, email addresses and phone numbers, each paragraph getting a different formatting.
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