This InDesign processing message occurs if the result of a macro or the result of a sara specifies that a particular style (text, paragraph, object, cell, or table) should be applied to the text result of the macro or sara, or to its container, and that the attempt to apply that style failed.

This message is usually due to an attempt by a sara to apply a cell or a table style to a non-table.

➢In that case the present message would refer to gStyleType=3 (trying to apply a table style to a non-table) or gStyleType=4 (trying to apply a cell style to a non-table).

An attempt by a macro to apply a cell or a table style to a non-table would be caught by message 187340.

Topic 187320, last updated on 15-Feb-2026