JavaScript To Transpose Words

app.selection[0].words[0] gives you a reference to the word.

You can use story.words.previousItem(word) to get the previous one.

It's probably faster to work it out based on character indexes though.

Something like this:

var sel = app.selection[0];

var story = sel.parentStory;

var curWord = sel.words[0];

var curWordIndex = curWord.index;

prevWord = story.characters.item(curWordIndex-2).words[0];

You can then use move to move the words around, but you will probably need to deal with the spaces as well...

Harbs

Yes, that is why you use characters[978].words[0] rather than words[978].