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Color me confused. What is the difference between a reference and an object reference?

One practical difference is demonstrated by this pair of scripts. The first doesn't work, the second does:



tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 
	set myRange to object reference of every document 
	tell myRange 
		search for "  " replacing with " " 
	end tell 
end tell

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 
	set myRange to a reference to every document 
	tell myRange 
		search for "  " replacing with " " 
	end tell 
end tell



I guess that a reference is an AppleScript entity while an object reference is an InDesign entity. Perhaps the issue is that you can have object references at a finer level than references? I guess I'm confused as to why we have/need both.

Dave