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Gang--

Here's an example containing a function that uses tagged text to replicate text from one text object to another in a document.



//DupMoveText.js 
// 
//----------example document setup---------- 
var myDocument = app.documents.add(); 
myDocument.colors.add({name:"Red", colorValue:[0, 100, 100, 0]}); 
myDocument.colors.add({name:"Blue", colorValue:[100, 50, 0, 0]}); 
var myBounds = new Array; 
myBounds[0] = myDocument.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.top; 
myBounds[1] = myDocument.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.left; 
myBounds[2] = myDocument.documentPreferences.pageHeight - myDocument.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.bottom; 
myBounds[3] = myDocument.documentPreferences.pageWidth - myDocument.pages.item(0).marginPreferences.right; 
myString = "abc\t1b\t1c\r\t\t\r\t\t" 
var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add(undefined, undefined, undefined, {geometricBounds:myBounds, contents:myString}); 
var myTable = myTextFrame.parentStory.tables.add(); 
var myString = myTable.cells.item(0).contents; 
myTable.cells.item(0).characters.item(0).fillColor = "Red"; 
myTable.cells.item(0).characters.item(1).fillColor = "Blue"; 
//----------end of example document setup---------- 
// 
myDupMoveText(myTable.cells.item(0).texts.item(0), myTable.rows.item(1).cells.item(0).texts.item(0)); 
myDupMoveText(myTable.cells.item(0).texts.item(0), myTable.rows.item(1).cells.item(1).texts.item(0)); 
myDupMoveText(myTable.cells.item(0).texts.item(0), myTable.rows.item(1).cells.item(2).texts.item(0)); 
myDupMoveText(myTable.cells.item(0).texts.item(0), myTable.rows.item(2).cells.item(0).texts.item(0)); 
myDupMoveText(myTable.cells.item(0).texts.item(0), myTable.rows.item(2).cells.item(1).texts.item(0)); 
myDupMoveText(myTable.cells.item(0).texts.item(0), myTable.rows.item(2).cells.item(2).texts.item(0)); 
//This function moves text from one object to another using tagged text. 
function myDupMoveText(mySourceText, myTargetText){ 
	var myTaggedTextFile = "/c/moveText.txt"; 
	mySourceText.exportFile(ExportFormat.taggedText, File(myTaggedTextFile)); 
	myTargetText.place(File(myTaggedTextFile)); 
}

It's pretty darn fast.

Thanks,

Ole