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Article #14841Re: Creating large page-refrenced index
From: Shane_Stanley
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:17
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:17
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On Jan 14, 2004, at 8:59 AM, McKinley Media wrote:
>
> I put that search code in there, setting the result to a variable so I
> could then reference that variable. Is there some other way to do
> this? How do I extract the results from the search if not this way?
That's how you do it, yes.
>
> set find preferences to nothing
> set change preferences to nothing
> set myPstyle to paragraph style "County" of myDoc
> set theResult to search (every item of all page items of page P whose
> class is text frame) with find attributes {applied paragraph
> style:myPstyle}
> if P is 1 then
> set myFirstCounty to theResult(first item)
> end if
>
> I get this error:
> InDesign CS got an error: every item of all page items of page 1 whose
> class = text frame doesn't understand the search message.
Probably because you removed the reference to document 1.
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Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
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