InDesign CS2
I imported some text into a text frame, used the 'convert text to table' menu item to turn each line into the row of a table, tabs to separate cells. Most of the cells are blank, some contain a little text I want to keep, and some contain just the letter "N". I want to change the cell fill of those with "N", and also delete the "N".
I'm selecting, with the type tool, just the columns I want the changes made in because the document will have many tables and not all will require this change - though those that won't require the change won't have any "N" cells... maybe it would be easier to write a script to run on all tables in the document?
Now I'm quite new to AppleScript. Here's what I've got:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
set myCount to 0
-- Check we've got a document open
if (count documents) is not equal to 0 then
set mySelection to selection
-- check selection is cells of a table
if (count mySelection) is not equal to 0 then
if class of item 1 of mySelection is contained by {cell}
set myCells to item 1 of mySelection
repeat with myCell in myCells
set myT to text of myCell
display dialog myT
end repeat
display dialog "There are " & myCount & " cells"
else
display dialog "You have not selected any table cells"
end if
display dialog "There is nothing selected"
else
display dialog "There is no InDesign document open"
end if
end if
end tell
What this does is report an error showing the strings off all cells concatenated thusly:
Can't make {"string","another string","more","","","","N","","","another string","some words","etc"} into type string.
I'd really appreciate some clues how to proceed with this.
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