InDesign

Hi. I'm testing using the Multi-Find/Change plug-in in my documents to apply about a dozen queries in one go. But there's one stage I've been doing manually which I can't figure out how to represent as a GREP or query, meaning I can't include it in the set of queries to apply.Basically during the process I'd select the first line of text, and right-click on the appropriate paragraph style and select 'Apply "xxx" style then next syle'. How can this be represented as a query or GREP please? Or even apply first style then next, as I know the name of the style would need to be specified somewhere. Thanks!

Hi, I have 220 page, 6x9 softcover book, mostly text but some pics and the proof back from the printer shows the text is 2 or 3 characters outside their yellow line margin, pretty much on all pages. The printer gave me this answer when I questioned whether it would be safe to print.. I have had a scan through as the text elements are only slightly beyond the safety margins they should still be seen once printed. The text is at most a few letters over the safety margin and as everything is still a good distance away from the magenta trim edges there shouldn't be any issues.  I am still a little worried so would like to get it all correct.What is the best way for me to make the margins better so the text is all inside please? Thank you    

At first , I thought it was a conflict with other software, but I closed all other software several times and it still didn't fix it.At first,  it was fine, but after some time of use it failed.When you restart the software again he is fine again.It seems to happen a lot since version 19.4, but "V" and "ESC" work. Anyone interested in helping to try it out?

I have a map that gets updated by location. I've been asked to make the locations alpahbetic and whenever a new place gets added it messes up the structure. Is it possible to link these locations below to the numberical points on the map, so that it will keep the format structured after editing? It would save me a lot time in future  🙏 

I have a series of paragraph styles and character styles. When i go to create a new text frame, it defaults to a specific paragraph AND character style. I don't know why it started doing this but I want the default characters style to be "none." How do i do that?

Hi all,Today, I needed to run InDesign 2024 on my Mac, and no matter what I tried, it would always 'hang' during launch (showing a 'what's new screen' and giving me the spinning beach ball). Resetting prefs and all that did not help.I managed to get past the problem by temporarily disconnecting my network (I am on Wifi, so I just turned off the Wifi for a minute), then launching InDesign 2024, and then re-activating my Wifi connection.I suspect that InDesign has some deadlock issue when it is trying to reach out to Adobe's welcome screen servers. Any which way - hope this helps!

In a series of documents that I'm working on, there are short boilerplate paragraphs, which are separate InDesign files that are linked and embedded as anchored objects in the text. Everything seems to work as expected, except that there are large spaces (gaps) in the spacing between whenever one of these boilerplates is followed by regular text. These gaps are indicated in the image below by the magenta (pink) arrows on either side.   I've been trying to determine what is affecting/controlling these gaps, because I want to make them smaller. I have eliminated the following:The spacing is not due to text wrap (text wrap is set to zero).  (The spacing between boilerplates is controlled by the text wrap, usually 0.125 inches. But I've set the final boilerplate text wrap to zero to reduce the space, but that is not working to reduce the space as desired.)It is not due to the paragraph "Space before" or "Space after" settings, both of which are zero.It is not due to the

I've created a master page but it isn't appearing on the page when I exit master pages

Here we have a map of locations, each numbered. The following page will include the name of the locations. This map gets updated regularly with new locations, and subsequebtly, the list of locations regularly gets updated too. So for example, if a new location is added which needs to be 'number 1', I'd have to change the order of all the numbers on the map and all the locations on the list, which is a bit of an ordeal.I'm wondering if there's a function/method within any of the adobe apps of achieving this job in a simpler more automated way i.e. making each amendment non-manually? These designs will need to be printed out, so I'm thinking InDesign is the best application for this, though feel free to correct me on this.

I've automated the RH of long documents by putting a user-entry box on the pasteboard of the master page. User enters title, lesson number, anything else. This single point of entry gets picked up and placed via text variables. Standard stuff. I like to pick up from this source in case the title needs to get shortened in RHs.  Designer has a new sort of "breadcrumbs" design for the RH. I made a custom font for the glyphs. Now, how to automate. It's a different strategy from regular pickup RH text variables. I could, for example, make my custom font so that the "Off Day" (circle number) is a lowercase letter, then define the uppercase as the "On Day" pill. Then they can be changed by changing char style. But I'm not sure if this can be triggered by a text variable, or grep, or a nested style. I have literally thousands of pages to do this on, so it really needs to be a lightweight, elegant solution. Since I have fellow production colleagues and InCopy editors, having to r

Pretty self-explanatory, I want to copy an element (text box, if that matters) and paste it in place on every page in my indesign document. Does anyone know how this is done?

Hi Steven Wareham.Are you here?https://github.com/stevenwareham/numberAdjuster/blob/master/number_adjuster_1_2.jsx  This script is mainly for catalogs, and can do calculations for all numbers in a selection.At this point the numbers are sorted by size.But now that I have an index, the size order of these numbers is disrupted.Such as:Because of the page count adjustment, the page numbers have been reduced by 1 page from 119.This reduces all page numbers greater than 119 by 1.And these pages may be distributed throughout the text box, they are unordered.So, the request is to add another condition, something like this: \d+>119Thank you very much.

I would have inserted before b1 to become the new b1.I had no choice but to insert it after a1 and then adjust the content. 

Why isn't the paragraph shading allowing me to go any lower?? 

Any suggestions on why a PDF exported from InDesign 2025 shows "Adobe InDesign 20.3 (Macintosh)" as the Author when viewd in Acrobat, even after editing the File Info in InDesign? I tried updating the Author in Adobe Acrobat as well but no luck.     <Title renamed by MOD>

Hello, I am having some problems with paragraph styles (when I export to html or epub) where I use grep style.To convert grep styles to local character styleshttp://in-tools.com/products/scripts/I use (Apply Nested Style). But here, my extra underlined words on the paragraph are not visible.Does anyone know another solution? Thanks in advance for your help. 

One of my clients is a book publisher. The editor annotates the PDF book layout, then returns the PDF to me to make the edits. She knows how to properly use Acrobat editing tools and is consistent in her usage. For the most part, our process works great. However, one weird and aggravating thing happens multiple times in almost every book we work on. When the Acrobat edits are imported into InDesign, some number of the "insert" edits will come in as "Accept" while others come in as "Resolve." The editor is using the same tool in Acrobat for all the inserts she marks. We've talked this over, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason why InDesign would import some inserts as "Accept" and others as "Resolve." The edits flagged as "Resolve" do not show up with easy-to-spot blue symbols in the InDesign document, the way the ones with "Accept" show up.  Because of this, I have to closely follow every PDF I work with as I make corrections so that I have a visual of the page/para/line

Hi,I'm editing a book containing four chapters (individual documents) and an introduction which includes a table of contents.The ToC displays the contents by looking at the heading styles of the four chapters as required no problems - 1234.but looking at the numbers of the chapter headings i get 1567.When i go to the chapters, chapter 1 is fine but chapter two heading style shows as "5" not two and the subsequent chapters follow on from that. if i remove the ToC, chapter two heading number reverts to 1.Its like the heading in chapter two is getting its number from the end of the ToC and not chapter one as it should.I've tried various fixes, used a different style for the ToC entries, re-applied styles, checked section breaks etc.Can't for the life of me get to he root of the problem.Help appreciated.thanks.

How do I stop this annoying overlay from appearing in my document?  

Heya,So I'm using a document, and when I align the text, a thick blue line will appear to the left of the text. The line will only disappear if the text is left-aligned. I would like to get rid of the line, but I'm not sure how.

Hi all, I have encountered an issue about the hidden character symbol (#), its suppose to be end of the sentence, but dont sure why it went to the front and then when I type someing into it, it became strange, and not in order. Does anyone know what happened and how can I solve it?Thank you in advance!  

Ich bin von CS 6 nun auf die Creative Cloud umgestiegen. Wie kann ich meine alten Indesign Dokumente weiterbearbeiten? Schriften aktualisieren? Wer oder was kann mir helfen?

why isn't by overset text going to the next pg??see video attached 

I have dynamic spelling and autocorrect checkboxes checked under: EDIT> SPELLING> I have gone into EDIT> PREFERENCES> SPELLING> and checked all check boxes under Find and Enable Dynamic Spelling. Also EDIT> PREFERENCES> AUTOCORRECT I have enabled Autocorrect and selected my Language as English:UK.My only concern is that under EDIT> PREFERENCES> DICTIONARY where I have nominated English: UK  the link is pointing nowhere. I've been searching for over an hour now, and really need some help. I can't continue with this project until I can get the Autocorrect and Dynamic spelling functioning.Any suggestions? Thank you!! 

Hello Community, I was wonderign if somebody could elaborate on the difference between InDesign and InDesign Pro, and I can't seem to find anything on it. This would be for Teams or Enterprise, not individual.