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Kari,

1) Are you sure that in your story, there is not an other colon
(something like "And he said: the weather is nice this evening")?
That seems dangerous to me to erase text without requiring the opinion of the user.

2) Why a loop for deleting space(s) after colon? In general, I HATE multiple spaces in a document !!! My teacher is a typograph !
So, you can make a search for spaces and replace with one space in your document. After that, you can do something like this:



 
tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 
	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 "" 
			end try 
			try 
				set contents of text from character 1 to (character 1 whose contents = " ") of paragraph i to "" 
			end try 
		end repeat 
	end tell 
end tell 




Hope that helps !

Olivier.