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My script is attempting to convert the tables to text and then to format them. I tried this:

//Convert tables to text.

myTables = myStory.tables;
theLim = myTables.length;

for (i=theLim - 1; i> -1; i--) {

myText = myTables[i].convertToText();

myText.appliedParagraphStyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles.item('--PDStemp');

}

The attempt to set the applied paragraph style takes minutes. Aha, I thought, perhaps I can use a completely different technique, so I tried this:

//Convert tables to text.

myTables = myStory.tables;
theLim = myTables.length;
myTempStyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles.item('--PDStemp');

for (i=theLim - 1; i> -1; i--) {

	myText = myTables[i].convertToText();

	app.findPreferences = null;
	app.changePreferences = null;
	myText.search(undefined,false,false,undefined,undefined,{appliedParagraphStyle:myTempStyle});

}

And while I didn't whip out a stop watch, it seemed to take the same amount of time. It looks to me that it is use of the myText variable with its reference near the end of this longish story that is causing the problem.

Thing is, this is just a sample. the real data has 46,000 tables. Gulp!

Time for some lateral thinking. However, this slowness does seem to be a real problem for InDesign CS scripting -- at least with JavaScript. I've not checked AppleScript.

Dave