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Schmaltzkopf
Inspiring
December 23, 2015
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How do I reference the first word of a (threaded) text-frame?

  • December 23, 2015
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Hello, there.

I have a series of threaded text-frames.
I want to be able to reference the first word of each one.
[It is no big deal to start project over, and do everything on the fly.]

Any ideas how I could accomplish that?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer Trevor:

Your code works to change the color of the first word. I would like to place the fisrt word in a speerate text frame. When I write "alert(firstWord, "yoo-ree-kah!");" the alert tells me: "[object Word]"


To get the contents of the word use myWord.contents to move the word use myWord.move(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, myDestinationTextFrame);

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Trevor:
Trevor:
Legend
December 23, 2015

This should help you.

var containers, l, c, firstWords = [], firstWord;


containers = app.selection[0].parentStory.textContainers;


l = containers.length;


for (c = 0; c < l; c++) {


    firstWord = containers.words[0];


    if (firstWord) {


        firstWords.push(firstWord);


        firstWords[firstWords.length - 1].fillColor = app.activeDocument.colors.itemByName("Magenta"); // remove this line if not needed ;-)


    }


}
Trevor:
Trevor:
Legend
December 23, 2015

Or maybe you want

var firstWord = app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].words[0];


firstWord && firstWord.fillColor = app.activeDocument.colors.itemByName("Cyan"); // remove this line if not needed ;-)
S
SchmaltzkopfAuthor
Inspiring
December 23, 2015

Your code works to change the color of the first word. I would like to place the fisrt word in a speerate text frame. When I write "alert(firstWord, "yoo-ree-kah!");" the alert tells me: "[object Word]"

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