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A script cannot do things that are impossible in the UI. So, selecting on more than one page is not possible.

However, to do what you want, a script doesn't have to select anything.

//DESCRIPTION: move all text frames in document 12 units down

( function() { 
  if (app.documents.length > 0) { 
    moveTextFrames(app.documents[0], [0,12]); 
     
 } 
  function moveTextFrames(doc, offset) { 
    var spreads = doc.spreads.everyItem().getElements(); 
    for (var j = spreads.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) { 
      spreads[j].textFrames.everyItem().move(undefined, offset); 
    } 
  } 
}())

To move by some other amount, change the values (that's x and y in the units you're using) in the moveTextFrames call.

Interestingly, for this to work, you have to go a spread at a time. I expected that:

      app.documents[0].textFrames.everyItem().move(undefined, [0,12]);




to work, but it didn't. Gave me the dreaded: this will cause an item to be moved off the pasteboard message.

Dave

you cannot select all textframes at once as you can't do in the UI.
however you can create a collection of textframes and loop thought it to move the positions.
var mytf = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
for(i=0; i<mytf.length; i++) { 	var x = mytf[i].geometricBounds[1]; 	var y = 2 //for example; 	mytf[i].move([x,y]); } I tried [undefined,2] but it seems you cannot avoid move only one axis only.

Loic

Oh Dave has already been by here and already corrected me :-) spreads[j].textFrames.everyItem().move(undefined, offset); I tried [undefined,2] but it seems you cannot avoid move only one axis only.