Can I use Find & Replace to change the fills and strokes of tables?

Question

I'm working on a catalog that has a fair amount of tables, that all have the same color scheme.  I need to change all of these tables to a new color scheme, and I'd much rather find a way to do it with one shot.  The tables do not have styles applied to them, so it's not a matter of adjusting the style definitions.
I know you can do a Find & Replace for text or objects in a specific color. Is there a way to do the same for table cells?  I've tried but haven't had luck getting it to work.
Thanks!
-Sean

Answer 1

Congratulations are in place -- changing parameter names in the right places is one thing, finding out what parts safely can be copied is step 2 in my book "how to become a successful scripter in 10 easy steps"
You cannot select more than one table in Table mode, but what you can do is select them together with its surrounding text -- just keep on dragging that mouse until you've covered them all. The InDesign Selection is a multi-purpose object (see the way the script has to find out "what is selected"), and one of the things it keeps track of is how many and which tables are "inside" the selection. Then run this slightly amended script:
a = app.selection[0];if (a.tables.length == 0)
alert ("You must be kidding; not a single table inside your selection!");
exit(0);
for (b=0; b<app.selection[0].tables.length; b++)
d = app.selection[0].tables[b]; // shortcut
for (c=0; c<d.cells.length; c++)
  if (d.cells[c].fillColor == app.activeDocument.swatches.item("Bloo"))
   d.cells[c].fillColor = app.activeDocument.swatches.item("Redd");
  // .. Insert more colors here ..
Now the script doesn't have to check anymore in which part of the table you clicked; it only has to iterate over the ones in your selection, and those are "immediately" accessible through the indexes (the square bracketed variables). And the "shortcut" is so I don't have to type "app.selection[0].tables[b].cells[c].fillColor" every time. (And the script runs marginally faster as well, although it's probably still almost immediate.)