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This still eludes me - help please!

I went to the logic in the first message after trying a simpler set of code, namely:

    Set myTC = myStory.Characters(-1).TextColumns(0)



But as the story gets bigger, this can take a VERY long time (even a small story of about 35000 characters can take about 10 seconds to reference the Characters(-1) element, and I am working with stories with over 10x that many characters. That's why I went to using the TextColumns(-1) expression. If I have a valid myTC value, then

    Set myChar = myTC.Characters.Item(-1)

seems to run relatively quickly, and seems to be a MUCH faster way of getting a pointer to the last character of the story!

The problem is, sometimes myStory only contains TextColumn items for the actual columns that contain text, and sometimes it has items for ALL columns of all the linked pages - even when the text didn't fill all of the columns (or even all of the pages). When it returns the latter, then

    myStory.TextColumns.Item(-1)

returns an InsertionPoint instead of a TextColumn!

Any ideas on why this would act this way? Thanks,

-- Greg