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Your original script attempt doesn't work only because you are applying the paragraph style to the contents rather than the paragraph.. apply the appliedParagraph style to myParagraphs[2] rather than myArray[2].
BUT... You don't need to do anything with styles for the script to do what you want.. Back to my comment to Obi-wan
- adding "\r" as the last character of the textFrame,
- moving paragraph[2] to the end of the textFrame,
- removing the last character from the textFrame.
That's all you need no styli
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As separate text frames, it could be quicker to simply move the third para after the last! 
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Skemicle is right! 
Something like this:
Before:
After:
app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Red/Green"');
function main()
{
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "(?s).+";
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "Red";
myFound_red = myDoc.findGrep( );
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "(?s).+";
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "Green";
myFound_Green = myDoc.findGrep( );
for (i = 0; i < myFound_red.length; i++) {
myRed = myFound_red
myGreen = myFound_Green;
myRed.move (LocationOptions.BEFORE, myGreen);
}
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
}
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This version seems to work but apparently a problem somewhere!!
To make it work, we need to limit the treatment of the script on the good text frames, e.g., only the text frames with a specific para style!
In my sample, the "Blue_Para" paras are the target!
So … if we consider all text frames are independent frames (no threaded):
… using this script, not perfect [to be validated]:
var myDoc = app.documents.item(0);
var myTFrames = myDoc.textFrames;
for (t = 0 ; t < myTFrames.length; t++)
{
var myTFrame = myTFrames
; var myParas = myTFrame.parentStory.paragraphs;
if (myParas[0].appliedParagraphStyle.name == "Blue_Para")
{
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ".\\z(?!\\r)";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "$0\r";
myTFrame.changeGrep();
var n = myTFrame.parentStory.paragraphs.length;
myParas[2].move(LocationOptions.AFTER, myParas[n-1]);
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\r\\z";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "";
myTFrame.changeGrep();
}
}
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Your original script attempt doesn't work only because you are applying the paragraph style to the contents rather than the paragraph.. apply the appliedParagraph style to myParagraphs[2] rather than myArray[2].
BUT... You don't need to do anything with styles for the script to do what you want.. Back to my comment to Obi-wan
- adding "\r" as the last character of the textFrame,
- moving paragraph[2] to the end of the textFrame,
- removing the last character from the textFrame.
That's all you need no styling necessary:
sel = app.selection[0];
sel.characters[-1].contents = "\r";
sel.paragraphs[2].move(LocationOptions.AT_END);
sel.characters[-1].contents = "";
I just needed to see you attempt for yourself before i would provide this 
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No annoyance for me!
More important and more annoying! 
After simplifying my script according to Skemicle's excellent writing, I'm always feeling that something runs wrong [line 09 with the "if"]
var myDoc = app.documents.item(0);
var myTFrames = myDoc.textFrames;
for ( t = 0 ; t < myTFrames.length; t++ )
{
var myTFrame = myTFrames
;
if ( myTFrame.paragraphs[0].appliedParagraphStyle.name == "Blue_Para" )
{
myTFrame.characters[-1].contents = "\r";
myTFrame.paragraphs[2].move(LocationOptions.AT_END);
myTFrame.characters[-1].contents = "";
}
}
The difference between Skemicle's approach and mine is that I treat all the doc, not only a selection.
That's why I've tried to find a target ("Blue_Para" para style applied to the first para)!
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Okay, this solution works better. And is short. Thank you for that!
Can you please tell me what happens in row 2 and row 4? What does that [-1] do?
"I just needed to see you attempt for yourself before i would provide this" ...and you was right!
I WANT to understand it. But the time is now too short for reading books and digging deep in the materia. I need the solution until monday. The books I have I read occasionally...
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