creating a table of blocks of text [AS2]

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  It is first of all, the first script I am trying to write from scratch. I'm completely green at the script and I picked up a few bits of ID Adobe scripting guide, but nothing has really stuck still relating to this particular goal.

  My supervisor maintains a master list of advertising space, with the name of the account, is the width of the space, and how space is the height, in an Excel sheet. These spaces can number in the hundreds, and I'm stuck manually drawing a rectangle for each space, which takes a lot of time.

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  Post edited by: Andreas Jansson

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  end;

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  HTH,

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  Hello world

  Was wondering if you guys could help out me. I am trying to automate the process of taking each line of a paragraph (separated by newlines) forced and in him giving his own framework text, so that I can move them independently. This is best illustrated in the attached screenshot.

  

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  Post edited by: GD_lewis

  Well, this image has helped a lot in providing the context!

  It works for you? Select a number of words; These will separate from its normal spaces (I use a slightly different GREP, hope it's inconsequential), then settled in the frameworks of their own alongside the current text frame.

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