Change paragraph style from X to Y in Pages Doc

Hi
Sorry for such a simple question, but I have looked through the Applescript manual and searched this forum and can't find a solution to my problem.
All I want to do is loop through the paragraphs of a Pages document and if the paragraph style is "Body Full", then change it to "Body Half". I have tried if statements repeat statements and everything I can think of but can't seem to get it to work. I can loop through all the paragraphs and change them to "Body Half", but as soon as I try to select only those whose paragraph style = "Body Full" it doesn't change any.
Here is an example of my attempt:
tell front document of application "Pages"
repeat with X from 1 to count (get paragraphs)
if paragraph style of paragraph X = "Body Full" then
set paragraph style of paragraph X to "Body Half"
end if
end repeat
end tell
If anyone could help I would be grateful. It's kind of embarrassing since I was a programmer for many years on mainframes and AS/400. Scripting is a new world to me.
Thanks in advance.
Jim

Hello
Jim Kahler wrote:
I am also using iWorks 09. Now the indent level sets all paragraphs to the indent level of wherever the insertion point was when I ran the script.
? Still confused, it looks so easy!
Jim
Ok, i understand.
Here is the solution :
tell front document of application "Pages"
set sel to selection
set search_style to paragraph style "Body Full"
set new_style to paragraph style "Body Half"
repeat with X from 1 to count paragraphs
tell paragraph X to if its paragraph style = search_style then
select character 1
set Y to indent level
set its paragraph style to new_style
set indent level to Y
end if
end repeat
select sel
end tell

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