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I've been reading the forum titled "AS changing text attributes" (John Darnell "AS changing text attributes" 5/13/03 1:00pm </cgi-bin/webx?14@@.1de8dffa>) and have tried it myself to no avail.

I have modified the script to the following:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
	set find preferences to nothing
	set change preferences to nothing
	tell active document
		set myCharacterStyle to character style "num"
		repeat with myStory in stories
			set myStartItems to search for "("
			set myEndItems to search for ")"
			if (count myStartItems) is not equal to (count myEndItems) then
				display dialog "Oops. The text must include mismatched formatting. Good luck finding the offending tags!"
			else
				repeat with myCounter from 1 to (count myStartItems)
					set myStartItem to object reference of item myCounter of myStartItems
					set myEndItem to object reference of item myCounter of myEndItems

					set myStartIndex to (index of character -1 of myStartItem) + 1
					set myEndIndex to (index of character 1 of myEndItem) - 1
					set applied character style of characters myStartItem through myEndItem of myStory to myCharacterStyle
				end repeat

			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell

and am trying to search through a story with the following text:

Abuse (1010)
Adultery (1020)
AIDS (1030)
Alcohol (1040)
Amulets (1365)
Angels (1050)
Anger (1060)
Antichrist (1065)
Anxiety (3850)