Macro in Pages that deletes every second line?

IM looking for a macro to run in pages that deletes every second line.
I want to be able to run it though tue document so that starting at the 1st line, it deletes lines 1,3,5,7,9,11 etc all the way to the end.
Anyone know what I can do? Perhaps a working AppleScript/programme? Had no luck as of yet.
Thanks

http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/webtech/CS2/unit_planning1/idb_paragraph_format .htm -- it's for CS2, but it's unchanged since then.

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2                         '(\W|^)ab(\W|$)',
3                         '\1xy\2',
4                         1,
5                         0,
6                         'i'
7                        )
8    FROM DUAL;
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SQL>
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2                         '(ab)(\W|$)',
3                         'xy\2',
4                         1,
5                         0,
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7                        )
8    FROM DUAL;
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3                         'xy\2',
4                         1,
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I did the work around for the titles/jpg's in this short video.
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It would appear that you know more than the guy at the Apple Store.
Thank goodness for on-line forums.
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