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Dave,

Yes, those syntaxies are quite difficult!
I tried this, but nothing happend...

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"  
	set myStory to parent story of selection  
	set theLim to count of paragraphs of myStory  
	set theCharacter to ":" as string  
	repeat with x from 1 to theLim  
		try  
			set theStart to index of character 1 of paragraph x of myStory  
			set theEnd to index of character -2 of paragraph x of myStory  
			set theLoc to (index of first character of characters theStart through theEnd of myStory whose contents = theCharacter)  
			try  
				delete (characters (theLoc + 1) through theStart)  
		end try  
	end repeat  
end tell



Jay,

Your approach worked...

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"  
	set theChangeText to ""  
	tell parent story of selection  
		repeat with i from 1 to count of paragraphs  
			try  
				set contents of text from character 1 to (character 1 whose contents = ":") of paragraph i to theChangeText  
			end try  
			set Checkers to character 1 of paragraph i  
			if Checkers is equal to space then  
				delete character 1 of paragraph i  
			end if  
		end repeat  
	end tell  
end tell

...but I'm pretty sure that there must be much more simpler way to do this!

Huh?

Kari