Thanks, Dave. I wondered about that, and assumed that the "tell document 1" somehow overrode the story selection -- and I assumed that because whatever the script did, it did indeed do it in the entire document.
It's all very weird, and I'm among those who don't like their software weird...
I'm told that Adobe released CC with old scripts that could not function correctly under CC. Adobe's CEO should avoid getting stuck in an elevator with me.
AB