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Re: Help to convert VB Script to AppleScript

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From: Shane Stanley
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 06:11
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in article 1de74010.2@WebX.la2eafNXanI, Richard Ronnback wrote:

> As I'm still learning scripting, I'm trying to understand out what the
> benefits are for each approach

Oh, I suspect your method is considerably faster -- using search is usually
quicker than a whose clause.

In fact, the only time it would make more sense to use the "apply style"
method would be if you wanted to do the opposite of what's wanted here -- to
retain formatting. That couldn't be done using the search command.

(I skipped paragraph style 1 because that's no style, and I'm not sure why
you'd want to remove manual styling from paragraphs with no style -- or
whether it would be removed anyway.)

You might also be safer to set the find preferences and change preferences
to nothing before you start your loop, to avoid inadvertently inheriting
some previous styling in the search.

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au
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