How to select and copy

[Johnwhite]

Hi experts,

Assume my active doc has only one story, my goal is to select the text and copy.

How I can do that?

my script like this:

 var mySource = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
       mySource.select();
app.copy();

but not working.

Could someone show me how please.

thanks

Regard

John

[Guest]

var mySource = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(); 

for(var i=0; i<mySource.length; i++)   

{   

    mySource.select() 

//~      app.cut() 

//~      app.paste()  

}

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

if your document contains only one single story use just that story and its texts property:

var doc = app.documents[0];
var story = doc.stories[0];
doc.select(story.texts[0]);
app.copy();

EDIT:

You cannot select the text of several stories at one time.

InDesign is not able to do that.

Regards,
Uwe

[Johnwhite]

thank you guys

thank you so much.

regard

John

[Laubender]

Hi John,

what do you like to do with the copied story?

Story objects do have a duplicate() method:

Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: Story

Regards,
Uwe

[Johnwhite]

thank you Wue

thank so much.

Regard

John