VB accessing item lists by name

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From: Ralph Stirling
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:00

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I have found that I can access a font by referring to it as: myInDesign.Fonts.Item("Comic Sans") for example. What other object lists can be accessed by supplying the name as the argument of the Item method? I wanted to access character styles the same way: myDoc.CharStyles.Item("CaptionText"), where the CaptionText style is already present in the document, but this doesn't work.

The Scripting Guide says nothing about what type of arguments the Item method takes for different objects (that I could find).

I can certainly loop through the style items and compare .Name with the style I'm looking for, but it would sure be convenient to use the same technique used for fonts.

Thanks,
-- Ralph

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