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Here you go. This assumes that your character style is at the top level of the panel. If you're using style groups, you'll need to write code to get at the style you want to use.

//DESCRIPTION: Delete text in named character style

(function() { 
  if (app.documents.length > 0) { 
    deleteStyledText(app.documents[0]); 
  } 
  function deleteStyledText(aDoc) { 
    var cStyle = aDoc.characterStyles.item("CharStyleName"); 
    setupFindText(); 
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = cStyle; 
    aDoc.changeText(); 
  } 
  function setupFindText(find, change, wholeWd, caseSense, foots, hidLayers, lockedLayers, lockedStories, masters) { 
    app.findTextPreferences = null; 
    app.changeTextPreferences = null; 
    try { app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = find } catch(e) {}; 
    try {app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = change } catch(e) {}; 
    app.findChangeTextOptions.properties = { 
      caseSensitive:(caseSense == null ? false : caseSense), 
      wholeWord:(wholeWd == null ? false : wholeWd), 
      includeFootnotes:(foots == null ? false : foots), 
      includeHiddenLayers:(hidLayers == null ? false : hidLayers), 
      includeLockedLayersForFind:(lockedLayers == null ? false : lockedLayers), 
      includeLockedStoriesForFind:(lockedStories == null ? false : lockedStories), 
      includeMasterPages:(masters == null ? false : masters) 
    } 
  } // end setupFindText 
}()) 


Dave

You could try this:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
    tell document 1
        set thestyle to character style "Whatever"
        delete (every text style range of every story whose applied
character style is thestyle)
    end tell
end tell


-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

Ah, I failed to spot the AS in the topic.

Dave

Thank you to the both of you. However this is still giving me error "CS3 got an error. Can't set character style of find text preferences to character style ID of document"
I have tried changing things around but still get the same error.

Appreciate your help,

Regards,

Andrew

If you want to do the search using the find/change commands, you need to
make a temporary character style of the same name at the application, use a
reference to that style for the search, and then delete it from the app when
you're finished.

-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

Thanks for your help, it is all working now.

Regards,

Andrew