Track changes indesign

Hi all
How to find the track changes in indesign using script

@vandy88 – now that's interesting. I suspect something special is going on here with the property "storyOffset".
If you alert for:
alert(myChange.storyOffset.constructor.name);
You'll get back "Array". Its length is 1. So your code storyOffset[0] is working.
If you alert for:
alert(myChange.storyOffset);
You'll get back "[object InsertionPoint]"
But: If you'll do that for a Table object instead of a tracked Change, you'll get back "InsertionPoint" in both instances!
alert(myTable.storyOffset); // => [object InsertionPoint]
alert(myTable.storyOffset.constructor.name); // => InsertionPoint
So, is this a bug in the property "storyOffset" of the object Change?
Or an omission in the documentation?
Uwe

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TekWarrior wrote:
I'm part of the end user computing and we are in the process of making a consolidated tnsnames.ora file as part of our migration from Windows XP to 7.
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