Character in front of text set with certain paragraph style

Hi Jimmy,.

Here's a quick and dirty script to your problem solution. The code could be nicer, but it gives you an idea on what to do:

1. loop through all the stories, and then through all paragraphs in each story

2. determine if a paragraph has the style applied "Silkeborg".

3 If yes then select it and insert "S" before:

var oDoc = app.activeDocument;

//First loop through all stories then through all paragraphs in each story
for(n=0; n< oDoc.stories.length;n++){
    for(i=0;i 
         
 
         
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