Script to change colors

I'd like a Java Script that will allow the user to change character colors in a document using a drop-down menu to select the new color, or a form the user can type the new color into. Has anyone seen anything like this?

We're setting up a document in which certain elements (folios, drop-caps, etc.) are one color in one month's publication. They change to another color the next month, and so on.
I'm looking for an efficient way to change all of them.
My thought was to have a script that would read the colors specified in stylesheets and then allow the user to change the color based on input from a drop-down menu or form.

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