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Ole,

Thanks for your advise! I fixed the script to my purpose:



tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 
	set find preferences to nothing 
	set change preferences to nothing 
	tell document 1 
		set myParaStyle to paragraph style "ki" 
		set myCharStyle to character style "Kirjallisuus nimet"

		--User find/change to apply the character style.  
		set myFoundItems to search for ":" with find attributes {paragraph style:myParaStyle} 
		repeat with myFoundItem in myFoundItems 
			set myStart to index of character 1 of paragraph 1 of myFoundItem 
			set myEnd to index of myFoundItem 
			tell parent story of myFoundItem 
				set applied character style of characters myStart through myEnd to myCharStyle 
			end tell 
		end repeat 
	end tell 
end tell



�and it works, but for reason unknown to me it�s veeryy sloow. I wonder why?

But I also managed to compile script that uses those head spinning whose clauses�



tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 
	tell active document 
		set findStyle to paragraph style "ki" 
		set charStyle to character style "Kirjallisuus nimet" 
		repeat with i from 1 to count stories 
			tell story i 
				repeat with j from (count (paragraphs whose applied paragraph style is findStyle)) to 1 by -1 
					tell (item j of paragraphs whose applied paragraph style is findStyle) 
						set applied character style of text from character 1 to (character 1 whose contents = ":") to charStyle 
						-- and whatever else you want  
					end tell 
				end repeat 
			end tell 
		end repeat 
	end tell 
end tell



� and it is very fast!! I wonder why?

Kari the Ever Confused