Re: [VB] Insert more then one string / text into InDesign! How TO???

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From: Jonathan_Hodges
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:20

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Timo:

I'm sorry, I don't know anything about Visual Basic, but in Applescript you add copy via the insertion point.

For instance:

make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{1, 1, 2, 2}, label:"Legal"}
			 	tell text frame "Legal"
					 place legalCopy1
                 tell insertion point -1
					 	place legalCopy2
				 	end tell
      end tell

The tricky part for me was discovering that "insertion point -1" was the end of the current block of copy in the text frame ("insertion point 1" is the start and each point from there on in is one character further along the copy block)

Hope that helps until some VB gurus pop in.

--jon

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