Hi Guys, I wrote something similiar a while ago: main(); function main() {   var curDoc = app.documents[0];   var allTables = curDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();   var nTables = allTables.length;   var testID = 0;   for (var t = 0; t < nTables; t++) {     var curTable = allTables ;     var allRows = curTable.rows;     var nRows   = allRows.length;         for (var r = 0; r < nRows; r++) {       var curRow = allRows ;       var iP = curRow.cells[0].insertionPoints[0];       var parTFrameID = iP.parentTextFrames[0].id;       if (testID != 0 && testID != parTFrameID) {         var c = allRows[r-1].cells.everyItem();         c.bottomEdgeStrokeWeight = curTable.bottomBorderStrokeWeight;       }       testID = parTFrameID;     }   } } @Loic: I’m interested in your code, but didn’t understand everything. It would be great, if you can explain some parts: 1. What is the benefit of the global object ns ? 2. Why is there a need for 'delete' and assigning a value of 'null'? 3. Normally I wrote 'function main()' > you wrote ns.main = function()  >> why? I think, Marc did it the same way. Since Marcs coding is really hard for me to read, I try to understand, why you guys do it in this way … 4. Why app.properties.activeDocument instead of app.activeDocument ? Thanks Kai ... View more

If you select a textframe, you have a textframe already. So if you choose app.selection[0].textFrames[0], this means a anchored textframe inside a textframe. And: You try to create your textframe on page 1. But you must add the new textframe on the page that followed the page of your selection. So try this one: var curDoc = app.activeDocument; var frame1 = app.selection[0]; var parPage = frame1.parentPage.documentOffset; var frame2 = curDoc.pages[parPage+1].textFrames.add({geometricBounds: [50, 50, 100,100]}); frame2.previousTextFrame = frame1; ... View more

If you use the grep-search, you must escpape '(' >> '\(', but since your findWhat is clear, you could also use the text search! Try this one: var curSel = app.selection[0]; var myColumn = prompt("Enter column number to delete",""); if (!myColumn) exit(); var allParas = curSel.paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(); app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;   for (var i = allParas.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {     var curPara = allParas;     var curParaContents = curPara.contents;     var x = curParaContents.split("\t");     app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = x[myColumn-1];     app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo  ="";      curPara.changeText();    } app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null; ... View more

Hi KS, this was my solution: var curSel = app.selection[0]; var paras = curSel.parentStory.paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(); for (var i = 0; i < paras.length; i++) {   var curPara = paras;   var allLines = curPara.lines;   for (var j = 0; j < allLines.length; j++) {     var curLine = allLines ;     var lastChar = curLine.characters[-1];     var lastCharContents = lastChar.contents;     if (lastCharContents == "\t") {       lastChar.select();       alert("Match!");     }   }  } ... View more

Your understanding is correct. JS starts the first paragraph with a index '0'. So, the steps are: 1. Find your labeled textframe. > Instead of the label-property, you could also use 'name' by entering a name in the layers panel. 2. Save your paragraphs and apply directly a para style (no need for a GREP) > in my example I do it the long way, but you could combine some lines. 3. Identify the quote para and apply quotation marks. I give you here a simple example. My example will fail, if the are alredy quotation marks. In this case, the grep must be built differently. And a last comment: Why do you need 2 textframes? Why not include the headline with the spanning columns feature? var curDoc = app.activeDocument; var allTFrames = curDoc.textFrames; for (var i = 0; i < allTFrames.length; i++) {   var tFrame = allTFrames;   if (tFrame.label == "format 1") {     var pStory = tFrame.parentStory;     var allParas = pStory.paragraphs;     var first = allParas[0];     var sec = allParas[1];     sec.appliedParagraphStyle = "author";     var third = allParas[2];     var fifth = allParas[4];     fifth.appliedParagraphStyle = "quote";     var fifthContents = fifth.contents;     var tempString = fifthContents.replace(/(.+)/,"\"$1\"");     fifth.contents = tempString;   }  } ... View more