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Bret,

It's been a long time, so I can't recall exactly what it should like, but what you have can't be right. You have a function definition inside an if statement, and while that might be valid JavaScript, it is not something I'd teach a beginner.

The if statement looks incomplete, also. It is referring to a member of a list, so it should at least have [j] after the name of the list to indicate you're examining the j-th item.

if (app.documents.length == 0) {
  alert("There are no open documents.");
  exit();
}
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
myOsetList = myDoc.stories.everyItem().overflows;
for (j = 0; myOsetList.length > j; j++) {
  if (myOsetList[j]) {

------ There's a bunch of stuff missing from here

function selectIt(theObj){
// Selects object, turns to page and zooms in on it
app.select(theObj,SelectionOptions.replaceWith);
app.activeWindow.zoom = ZoomOptions.fitPage;
app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage = 200;
// j-th story is overset; tell the user and exit
   selectIt(myDoc.stories.textFrames[-1]);
  exit();
}

And what follows ought not to be after the function.

alert("No stories are overset");
}
}

Can you give me a link to where you copied this?

Dave