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363 Export all text

363 Export all text - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

363 Export all text

- [Instructor] I work with a lot of companies, a lot of design departments, who need to find a way to export all the text from their InDesign layouts, from a magazine or journal or even a brochure, and they're going to turn over that text to a web developer or to their web team to put onto their website, or to do something else with it. And they ask me, is there a way to export all the text? If you click inside a single text frame, let me get the smaller one here, with your type tool, and you go to the file menu and choose export, you can export to text, but only one frame at a time. It won't export the whole thing. So, there is a script that's built into InDesign that's really subpar. I'll show you the script, and then I'm going to show you two or three excellent other ways to get all the text that you want out of InDesign into a format that you can use in Microsoft Word, or to give to your developers, with and without formatting, pretty neat solutions. Okay, so let's take a look at…

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