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Dave--

Whoa, wait, hold the phone, etc.! When I examined this problem further, I found that, once again, scripting mirrors the user interface. When you add a column, you select a column and choose Insert>Column. InDesign gives you a choice of adding the new column to the left or right of the selected column. When you select a table, you can only add a column at the beginning or end of a table. So we've been barking up the wrong tree--we need to tell a *column* to add the new column, as in:



var myTable=app.documents.item(0).stories.item(0).tables.item(0);  
var myColumn = myTable.columns.item(1).columns.add(LocationOptions.atBeginning);

"atEnd" also works, and adds the column to the right of the specified column.

Once again, researching what happens in the UI clears up scripting mysteries!

Thanks,

Ole