Selecting a paragraph style

Hi All,
I am working on InDesign CS3, I am looking for an API/Command using which I could select a paragraph style.
I am elaborating my problem as follows
In paragraph style palette we have a default paragraph style called "Basic paragraph"
I have created another paragraph style say "Paragraph Style 1"
Now I want to select "Paragraph Style 1" as a default style for the newly created story
If anybody knows about this then please help me
Thanks and Regards,
Alam

We can any style to default style by processing kDefaultTextStyleCmdBoss

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pchinique wrote:
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