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Re: AS: Creation of an index from a text file

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From: Shane Stanley
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 23:46
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in article ef91ff0.-1@WebX.aaQKaf7vad4, Olivier Berquin wrote:

> I would like to do this think in InDesign: an index from a file.
> 
> In other words, I've a text file with a list of 'words'. I would like to
> retrieve these words in my InDesign document.
> 
> I've wrote this in QuarkXPress (this part of my script return every page where
> the word 'WordToFind' appears). How I can do this in InDesign ?
> 
> set WordToFind to "Hammer"
> set PageList to (page number of page 1 of (every text box whose its text
> contains WordToFind))

Something like this:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.1"
 set thePages to {}
 tell document 1
  repeat with i from 1 to count of pages
   set x to search every text frame of page i for "hammer"
   try
    x
    set end of thePages to i
   end try
  end repeat
 end tell
end tell
thePages

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