// SelectedWordsToNewFrames.jsx 
// tested only in ID CS3; Stephan Möbius 
 
if (app.documents.length > 0 && app.selection.length == 1 && app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty("baseline") && app.selection[0].characters.length > 0) { 
		if (app.selection[0].lines.length <= 1) { 
			selectedTextToNewFrame(app.selection[0]);  
		} 
		else alert("Selektierter Text muss in einer Zeile stehen. Breche ab."); 
} 
 
function selectedTextToNewFrame(sText) { 
	for (var j = 0; j < sText.words.length-1; j++) {  
		hProps = [sText.words[j].horizontalOffset - sText.words[j].leftIndent - sText.words[j].firstLineIndent, (sText.words[j+1].horizontalOffset - sText.words[j+1].leftIndent - sText.words[j+1].firstLineIndent)-(sText.words[j].horizontalOffset - sText.words[j].leftIndent - sText.words[j].firstLineIndent)]; 
		var nFrame = sText.parentTextFrames[0].parent.textFrames.add(); 
		nFrame.geometricBounds = [sText.lines[-1].baseline, hProps[0], sText.lines[0].baseline - sText.lines[0].ascent, hProps[0] + hProps[1]]; 
		nFrame.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.ascentOffset; 
		sText.words[j].duplicate(LocationOptions.atBeginning, nFrame.insertionPoints.item(0)); 
	} 
	// do once more differently for the last word 
	var j = sText.words.length-1; 
	hProps = [sText.words[j].horizontalOffset - sText.words[j].leftIndent - sText.words[j].firstLineIndent, sText.parentTextFrames[0].geometricBounds[3]]; 
	var nFrame = sText.parentTextFrames[0].parent.textFrames.add(); 
	nFrame.geometricBounds = [sText.lines[-1].baseline, hProps[0], sText.lines[0].baseline - sText.lines[0].ascent, hProps[1]]; 
	nFrame.textFramePreferences.firstBaselineOffset = FirstBaseline.ascentOffset; 
	sText.words[j].duplicate(LocationOptions.atBeginning, nFrame.insertionPoints.item(0)); 
	sText.parentTextFrames[0].remove(); 
}