Hello Friends, I am new in InDesign Java Script

Hello Friends,
I am new in InDesign Java Script. I want to edit the page's master text Frame Object through Java Script. Any Idea regarding this will help me a lot.
thanks in advance

Have you read any of the documentation? It doesn't seem so :-)
Vivek Singh, the documentation is a great tool for understanding object model. Once you got the main concept of hierarchy between objects, accessing objects is quite a child game.
I am not meaning scripting is easy but have a look on the documentation, it's a essential starting point. I bought too the Peter Karhel's guide
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528171/index.html
it's really cheap regarding to the quality of the learning.
Welcome in this world.
BTW, masterspreads is a property of document. So you should work with something like :
app.activeDocument.masterSpreads[0].xxx
Loic

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