Finding cells by content en replace stroke & fill colour

Question

I have generated in InDesign CS3 a catalogue with hundreds of tables.
unfortunatly there was a mistake or two in building the tables. In a way I need to replace a stroke colour from a cell and also a fill colour.
So my question is if there is a way in InDeisgn CS3 for automatically...
searching in a document for table cells with "text colour Black_EN" AND "fill colour Black_EN" and change that particular cell stroke colour in Black_EN
searching in a document for table cells with "text colour Black_EN" AND "fill colour Black" and change that particular cell fill colour in Black_EN
Can someone help me with a usable script? I'm a newie to scripting so any help is usefull!
thanks in advance, Pascal (form Belgium)

Answer 1

Aaahh .. the old adage of one picture equalling a thousand words. In this case, the words are rather long, as the image is >280K.
O-kay. You have lots of tables, possibly some with bad colors, but the text is always the correct color. How does this sound: you click inside any table, and the script checks the current text color (*). Then it sets all strokes to that color, and the fill of every cell with a 50% fill pattern. It means you can select a table, run the script, select the next, run the script, etc. until done (or utterly bored, whatever comes first).
(*) Actually, the text color of the first character in the top left cell. I hope that's not a problem.
The script is fairly indifferent to your selection: anywhere inside, in the text, or with a cell, row, column or even the entire table selected is no problem.
Graag gedaan! (having them English folks choke on our Dutch gees)
table = app.selection[0];
if (table.hasOwnProperty("baseline"))
table = table.parent;
if (table instanceof Cell)
table = table.parent;
if (table instanceof Column)
table = table.parent;
if (table instanceof Row)
table = table.parent;
if (!(table instanceof Table))
alert ("Echt niet in een tabel!");
exit(0);
color = table.cells[0].characters[0].fillColor;
black = app.activeDocument.swatches.item("Black");
table.cells.everyItem().properties = {
topEdgeStrokeColor:color,
bottomEdgeStrokeColor:color,
leftEdgeStrokeColor:color,
rightEdgeStrokeColor:color };
for (aCell=0; aCell<table.cells.length; aCell++)
if (table.cells[aCell].fillTint == 50)
  table.cells[aCell].fillColor = color;