Re: Selecting text (hi-lighting)

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From: Olav_Kvern
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:49

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dean--

The problem is that you're trying to tell the first item of myInDesign.Selection to select something. That won't work--Select is a method attached to the application object or to a document object(that's where you'd find it in the Scripting Guide).



Rem If you already have a reference to a text frame "myTextFrame" 
Rem and an InDesign applciation object "myInDesign", then: 
myInDesign.Select myTextFrame.ParentStory.Characters.ItemByRange(10, 15)

If you're using InDesign 2.x, you need to provide a character object rather than just a character index. So:

myInDesign.Select myTextFrame.ParentStory.Characters.ItemByRange(myTextFrame.ParentStory.Characters.Item(10), myTextFrame.ParentStory.Characters.Item(15))

Hope this works/helps!
Thanks,

Ole

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