What's wrong with this AppleScript?

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Basically, Pages doesn't know what the width property means and AppleScript doesn't consider width to be a property of the selection, (And you aren't really directing your set command to anything.)

You probably have to do something like this:

tell application "Pages"

tell body text of front document

repeat with i from 1 to (count every table)

tell table i

set width to 20.5

end tell

end repeat

end tell

end tell

While those other tasks are fairly simple and straightforward using Pages Find/Replace, they would be very complicated in AppleScript. I think you would have to extract the text from the Pages document and then script a find and replace routine to do what you want, then reinsert the text into the Pages document. That sort of routine is documented in some of the AppleScript books (such as the Sanderson and Rosenthal one).

It might be an interesting educational project, but unless you are dealling with hundreds or thousands of documents, it probably isn't worth reinventing the wheel like this.

You just put the word in the Find field and put nothing in the Replace field and then Replace All.

(deleted-same as Jeff's response)

Barry

Be careful with Replace All. It will act on that letter combination where ever it finds it, even within another word.

Walt