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Hello,

I wonder if anyone could help me with the following task:

I'm working with a very large document (700+) pages. There are about 300
instances of a paragraph which needs to have a border put around it. The
paragraph is of varying length. As far as I know, there is no way to put a
border round a paragraph in InDesign directly. There are settings for rule
above and below, but not on the sides.

The workaround that I think will be simplest is to put each of these
paragraphs in its own 1x1 table. That way, the paragraph remains as part of
the regular text-flow.

All the paragraphs in question have a style applied to them which is called
"HRBox".

It would be extremely helpful and kind if someone could figure out how to
write a script that finds all paragraphs styled "HRBox", puts each one into
its own table (I will set up the default table preferences to match exactly
what I need; so the paragraph need only be placed in a default table; this
might make things simpler), and then erase the original paragraph.

I could probably program such script myself in Word using VB, because you
can make a macro of a single instance and see what commands need to be used,
etc. But in InDesign, where you have to start from scratch, I don't really
know where to begin.

Ideally, the script would be in VB, because I'm familiar with that from
Word; and the software is IDCS2.

Any help is warmly appreciated,

Thanks
Ariel