Feature Request: Find/Change for Table Row Heights and Column Widths in InDesign

Basically, in this so simple case, a simple script! …

/*
    _FRIdNGE-0822_TableCol40To43.jsx
    Script written by FRIdNGE, Michel Allio [10/03/26]
*/

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myTables = myDoc.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
var T = myTables.length,  t;
// Rule:
var myOldWidth = 40;
var myNewWidth = 43;
var myCount = 0;
for ( t = 0; t < T; t++ ) {
    var myTable = myTables[t];
    var C = myTable.columns.length,  c;
    for ( c = 0; c < C; c++ ) {
        var myColumn = myTable.columns[c];
        if ( myColumn.width === myOldWidth ) {
            myColumn.width = myNewWidth;
            myCount++
        }
    }
}
alert( myCount + " column(s) changed from " + myOldWidth + " to " + myNewWidth + "." )

(^/)  The Jedi

Lots of great workflow tips here but back to your original question: Adobe accepts feature requests here: https://indesign.uservoice.com. You can just copy it over.

This is a user-to-user forum where we (expert users, vetted by Adobe) volunteer to help other users figure out how to use InDesign, as it works right now. 

You might want to check out Woodwing SmartStyles. Not sure if it will do exactly what you want, but it’s worth looking into. They have a 30-day trial.

https://www.woodwing.com/products/woodwing-smart-styles

Hi Ross,

Personally, I think a better solution would be to define widths and heights in Cell Styles. Then you could edit the style and the width would change wherever you had defined it that width all at once.

And that would suggest, too, that more than header, footer, body, left, and right cell styles could be understood by the Table Style. There should be room for any defined column, somehow.

When you work in a table=heavy document, the only way to manage the time-consumption is with precise use of Table and Cell Styles. (PS: Always define those styles without touching or selecting any table. Once defined and organized by the table style, apply them with one click; then proceed to look at the [None] + plus sign in the Cell Styles panel and click the icon at the bottom that removes all overrides or the other button that removes all attributes not defined in the Cell Style. The result is clean and stable tables in the InDesign document.

Read some highly specific guidance here:

https://trainingonsite.com/213-indesign-typesetting-attributes-hierarchy.html