Add Keyboard Shortcuts for Select All Unused Styles

I would really like to know about this as well — not just for Paragraph Styles, but for Character Styles as well. This becomes critical when making an ePub, because you really want to remove any unused styles before exporting to ePub. It makes the code clean-up process so much easier when you don't have a lot of unused styles in there.

I have Blatner Tools, too, and it won't let you make a shortcut for this, which is a crying shame.

Also sad is that no one has responded to this post yet, since this is something that many people would find useful, if it was available.

Sheri

This script works in InDesign CS6, at least. It removes all unused paragraph and character styles with one click. Sweet:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myParStyles = myDoc.paragraphStyles;
var myCharStyles = myDoc.characterStyles;

for (j = myParStyles.length-1; j >= 2; j– ) {
removeUnusedParaStyle(myParStyles[j]);
}

for (i = myCharStyles.length-1; i >= 1; i– ) {
removeUnusedCharStyle(myCharStyles[i]);
}

function removeUnusedParaStyle(myPaStyle) {
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myPaStyle;
var myFoundStyles = myDoc.findText();
if (myFoundStyles == 0) {
myPaStyle.remove();
}
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}

function removeUnusedCharStyle(myChStyle) {
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myChStyle;
var myFoundStyles = myDoc.findText();
if (myFoundStyles == 0) {
myChStyle.remove();
}
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}

This is where I found it, just in case I didn’t copy it correctly:

https://forums.adobe.com/message/1106498

It works also for the latest CC 2014.2 version.
In the mentioned link is also a script for deleting unused swatches which I use daily.

It looks like the forum code messed up the script, it replaced two dashes with an emdash!

I went to the original forum post (thank you for posting that!) and copied it from there, saved it as a javascript, tested in CC2014 … it works great.

You can download the RemoveUnusedStyles.jsx script from here:

https://creativepro.com/downloads/RemoveUnusedStyles.jsx.zip

Interesting script to clean up indesign documents before archiving them. If this could clean Object Styles also it would be perfect.

Hey Andre,

Here is a modified version of the script that also cleans up Object Styles.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14902057/RemoveUnusedStyles.jsx

A. A. RON…

Thank you very much, it work just great. Will think of you every time I use it. :)