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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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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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