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Harv--

InDesign does not really support VB.NET yet--you can get it to work, but it can be a fair amount of work. I'd suggest you get VB5 CCE (Control Creation Edition)--it's a free download from Microsoft. It's at: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/cce/default.asp>

All of the example scripts in the Scripting Guide will work with VB5 CCE.

In the meantime, the script for searching/replacing the stroke weight is quite simple--here's a VBScript version.



Rem Change .5 point stroke to 1 point stroke 
Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.2.0") 
Set myDocument = myInDesign.ActiveDocument 
For myCounter = myDocument.AllPageItems.Count To 1 Step -1 
    Set myPageItem = myDocument.AllPageItems.Item(myCounter) 
    Select Case TypeName(myPageItem) 
        Case "Line", "Polygon", "Rectangle", "Oval" 
            If myPageItem.StrokeWeight = .5 Then 
                myPageItem.StrokeWeight = 1 
            End If 
        Case Else 
            Rem do nothing 
    End Select 
Next 




Copy the script out of the message, save it as a text file with the file extension .vbs, and save it in the Scripts folder inside your InDesign folder. This script will catch all objects that are not on master spreads.

As far as applying a drop shadow to the text in a given paragraph style--you can't apply a drop shadow to some of the text in a text frame. It's got to be the entire text frame. You can convert the text to outlines and apply the shadow to the graphic, or you can put the text inside an inline frame and apply a drop shadow to the frame. Would either of these work for you?

Thanks,

Ole