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Roy,

This pseudo script (you actually can run it) answers your question, I think:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
 set myStory to parent story of selection
 set myIndex to index of insertion point 1 of selection
 set myPara to object reference of paragraph 1 of selection
 set contents of insertion point 1 of selection to forced line break
end tell

myStory is a reference because asking for the parent story returns a reference and not the contents.

myPara is an object reference to the paragraph because that's what I asked for. If you look in the InDesign dictionary, you'll see that most text items have as a property object reference.

The formal name for "software carriage return" is forced line break.

I included setting an index because that's one way of referencing into a story. You can say something like:

set contents of insertion point myIndex of myStory to "A"

or

set contents of character myIndex of myStory to "A"

Dave