Reply To: Extracting text from multiple unthreaded text frames

Pete, Dwayne is right, I forgot this little detail. As a matter of fact I simply assumed that each text frame contained an independent snippet of formatted text.
In other words, the frame to be linked to the next does not have a paragraph with a hard return then the next paragraph in the box that will be linked will inherit the previous paragraph’s style.
If this is the case, to speed up the process you could use a find/change trick to insert hard returns after each paragraph, no matter if they have it or not. Of course, after this, several paragraphs may end up having an extra hard return, so once you have joined all the text frames into one single text string then you will have to remove those extra hard returns by find/changing double hard returns by only one. In this manner you will have a clean text that maintains untouched all paragraph styles.
Using metachars this is a quite simple and quick way to accomplish such cleaning.
Cheers
Tom