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Roy,

If I understand you, every instance of "@" signifies a place where your paragraph style must "split" and you want to delete the "@" after making the styling change.

Now, that sentence was PageMaker speak.

In InDesign, what you want to do is set a character style to all the text up to the "@" and then delete the "@".

So, I'll call the character style "runin".

Your script must search for every instance of "@" and then process them backwards (so that deleting one doesn't destroy the references to the unprocessed paragraphs).

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
 set myCharStyle to character style "runin" of document 1
 set find preferences to nothing
 set myAts to search document 1 for "@"
 repeat with n from count of myAts to 1 by -1
  set myStory to parent story of item n of myAts
  set myIndex to index of item n of myAts
  set myParaIndex to index of paragraph 1 of of item n of myAts
  set applied character style of characters myParaIndex through myIndex of myStory to myStyle
  delete character myIndex of myStory
 end repeat
end tell

This script does the job provided that you set up the character style before running it.

Dave