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016 Running a script

016 Running a script - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

016 Running a script

Anne-Marie Concepcion: You know it always shocks me when InDesign can't do everything. You know, when there are features missing, because by this time you think of it would have come up with every single feature and added it to the program, but the good thing is that InDesign is very scriptable. It's very easy to add scripts, sort of like little mini programs that add the features that for some reason the InDesign engineers didn't add to the program itself. The scripts community is very rich in InDesign and what I want to show you in this video is how you might locate scripts and then how you install them and how you use them. It's surprising to me that so few InDesign users who depend on it for their daily living, don't even know that there are free scripts that come with the program. So let's take this one example. Here we have a document with two different tables. Now say that I heard from the client and they say "you know what, we want this to be one table." So like well how can I…

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