Delete column from Indesign text frame

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#1

I have a document - 120 pages - with lots of lots of text frames consisting of tables.
All these tables consist of 7 columns, and I need this column to be deleted on about 50% of the tables.

I’ve tried to write a script to do this, but ran into trouble…
What I want is to select the table inside the text frame, and then run this script:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
	set myTable to selection
	tell myTable
		delete column 7
	end tell
end tell

I keep getting the error: “Can get column 7 of {table id XXX of text frame id XXX of page id XXX …}” and so on…

If i try testing with a blank document consisting of only 1 text frame I use this script with success:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
	tell active document
		set myTable to text frame 1
		tell table 1 of myTable
			delete column 7
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

So… What to do, what to do?

#2

The problem is that selection is a list of items selected even if there is nothing selected. The following should work:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
	set myTable to item 1 of (selection)
	tell myTable
		delete column 7
	end tell
end tell