Moving text from one place to another

Question

This is a Macintosh AppleScript questions on InDesign CS3.
I want to move a portion of a paragraph several lines down. Here's what I want to do:
Select from the word "Clutch:" to end of the line (including the paragraph return)
Cut the selection
Paste cut text at left margin, two lines down
Repeat to end of story
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

It sounds like you want something like this:<br /><br />tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"<br />    tell document 1<br />        tell prent story of text frame 1 -- or whatever<br />            considering case<br />                set parCount to count of paragraphs<br />                repeat with i from (parCount - 2) to 1 by -1 -- work from<br />end<br />                    if paragraph i contains "Clutch:" then<br />                        set theWord to (object reference of word 1 of<br />paragraph i whose contents = "Clutch:")<br />                        move (text from character 1 of theWord to character<br />-1 of paragraph i) to after character -1 of paragraph (i + 2)<br />                    end if<br />                end repeat<br />            end considering<br />        end tell<br />    end tell<br />end tell<br /><br /><br />-- <br />Shane Stanley <[email protected]>