new to the list. I use AS primarily within InD (CS3 here), so I'll jump right in ... I assume you're using a character style for the ornament. try something like this. --to be sure you're starting with a clean search, tell the application: set find text preferences to nothing set change text preferences to nothing --get a reference to your object style: tell theDoc try set ornStyle to object reference of (every character style whose name is "Style Name") on error set ornStyle to make character style with properties {name:"Style Name"} -- insert your parameters end try end tell --enter the actual find/change values here: set properties of find text preferences to {find what:"|", applied character style:none} set properties of change text preferences to {change to:"x", applied character style:ornStyle} --perform the search. --I define 'myObject' earlier on so I can choose to perform the search within a selection or across the document. tell myObject to change text