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Is there a script somewhere that allows you to move all contents from 1 layer to antoher? ex.. Layer 1 to Defalut? I have a script that creates a layer and adds a text frame to it but i cannot figure how to move everyting from that frame to a different one. Thanks as usualChris

How do I increase the gap between the title and the text? 

Hi due to computer problems where I had to send my computer that has capability to run InDesign to the tech store for repair, I had to upload my InDesign file to Adobe Express to keep working on it. Now I have my Windows PC back, I want to upload the Adobe Express design back into InDesign to keep working on it. My google search says to upload it as a PDF which makes me concerned since it isn't a design format, will it interfere with the quality of the design? Would it be better to keep working in Adobe Express to finish the book? I really want it in InDesign to use ruler guides as in the attached screenshot to ensure everything is lined up exactly right. Eg, I want the headings on each page to be in exactly the same place on each page. With Adobe Express, I've had to hold a ruler against my screen which feels really imprecise.  I hope you can help. I always try to self-resolve with Google/Adobe online info first but I really appreciate your real-life expe

Hi everyone, I’m experiencing a strange issue in Adobe InDesign. When I try to move a selection or frame, as soon as I click and hold, it suddenly jumps far to the right of my cursor. If I drop it outside the page, it gets stuck and blocked. I’ve tried resetting preferences, checking snap/grid settings, re-installing InDesign, but nothing has worked so far. Please see the attached video for a better explanation. Has anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions would be appreciated!Thanks in advance!

I am dealing with the 'failed to export to PDF' error - however I have gone through all the possible solutions including saving as IDML, checking all missing links/fonts, exporting smaller sections at a time. It changes which page it has an error with every time, and even if I delete all the content from that page - it says it still has an error with them. The only thing I can find is when I try to package the file it says there is only missing font, however this is on a different page, but all it doesn't say the name of the missing font and just says '???'  If i take the content into different indesign files and export smaller sections, sometimes it works - sometimes it takes an issue with random pages again. Please help?

Hi community,   I created some text boxes and added some a fill gradient property. My client requested to leave some room on the left side of the box for an icon. However, "Bottom" , "Left", and "Right" settings are blocked along with the chain icon at the center.   The only setting available to adjust is the Inset which affects all sides as equals. The only workaround I found was creating new text boxes and going to the "Text Frame options" pop-up box, which is time-consuming. Do you know why that happens?   Thanks!     <Title renamed by MOD>

Sometimes the table is too long, even several pages, you need to exclude the header, continuation, and end of the table, dragging and selecting may be your best way, but it is still a bit cumbersome and troublesome.What's the best way to do this?Or a script that selects only the cells in the columns that have the body style applied to them.After selecting a column, you can perform many operations, and then selecting a row is faster! Thank you very much.(Attachments available) 

This green arrow had no blue dotted line around it until I hyperlinked it to an external web page. You can see from the screen grab shows that its box has no stroke applied to it. Any thoughts on why InDesign is imparting this unwanted dotted line? Thank you in advance! 

Good afternoon, comunity,I am trying to help a friend create a table where data will be pulled from an Excel spreadsheet. The Excel spreadsheet looks as follows:Report Number Date Title Recommendation Number Recommendation Text Funds      Please see the attached picture for reference.The outcome should be sorted based on the last five characters of the report number (in descending order), and the date (in ascending order). Additionally, the data should be grouped based on the Report Number, Date, and Title. Finally "open Recommendations and Potential Monetary Benefits" as seen in the picture should be repeated on each page. The full file can be found here.Now, my question is: Is this even doable in InDesign, and if yes, how?Thank you in advance. 

Hi, Has anyone seen this? It happened when I dragged the panel into the dock. Now, it's stuck like this. It's perfectly useable, but just a bit annoying. It appears like this no matter which workspace I use. The panel is a specialised one from a company I work with, but it has been fine up until now. I'm on a Mac with InDesign 2023 (client required). Thanks in advance, Karen 

"I am attempting to create a script to export a PDF from a data merge, but nothing is working.

Hi , I am new to InDesign. And I hope my question is not silly. I created an artist brochure, which I have already published.However, I cannot find it on the list, so I will select it again to update it.How can I can happen I am not sure.  Is there any way I can open it again on the InDesign to update it?Thank you so much for any assistance you can provide. Belgin 

Hello everyone,Im currently working to convert the idml file into html and try to fix this via automation. And tried with some extendscript codeMain(); function Main() { // Check to see whether any InDesign documents are open. // If no documents are open, display an error message. if (app.documents.length > 0) { var myDoc = app.activeDocument; // Build the filename var myDocName = decodeURI(myDoc.fullName); var myDocBaseName = myDocName.substring(0, myDocName.lastIndexOf(".")); // Export the page to FXL HTML with (myDoc.htmlFXLExportPreferences) { // HTMLRangeFormat = PageRangeFormat.EXPORT_ALL_PAGES HTMLRangeFormat = PageRangeFormat.EXPORT_PAGE_RANGE // HTMLPageRange = "1-2"; } myDoc.exportFile(ExportFormat.HTMLFXL, new File(myDocBaseName + ".html"), true); } else { // No documents are open, so display an error message. alert("No InDesign documents are open. Please open a document and try again.") } }My requirement is to convert the idml file in

I accidentally deleted an endnote, no 67, in a book I'm working on. I have tried to reinsert it on the original page in the text and to get all the subsequent endnotes to reorder, but every time I do this it stubbornly goes right to the end of the endnotes, no 131, and also appears as 131 in the text. This is driving me mad, and I'm frightened of messing up all the endnotes in the book. If anyone can suggest how I resolve this I would be most grateful!Tom.

Hi,I have created an InDesign document with three columns. In column 1 are 4 regions, North, South, West and East. In column 2 are the corresponding suppliers of each region and in column 3 are the contact details of each supplier with hyperlinks.In column 1 and 2, all regions and text boxes are converted into buttons. These buttons have the property of making the other buttons visible or invisible.When opening the pdf, only column 1 is visible. For example, if you click on region North then the corresponding suppliers will be visible in column 2 and if you click on one of the suppliers then its contact information will be visible in column 3.If you then click on another region then the data in columns 2 and 3 should become invisible. That is where it goes wrong, in column 3 the contact data remains visible while it is set to invisible.I have already saved the document as .idml and reopened it but that does not help.Attached are some screenshots for clarification, the InDesign document

Has anyone ever written a script to merge all tables (multiple not just one) in a document and then export the completed table to excel? I need to extract the data from tables to then be used in excel format in a structure format in one single spreadsheet?

(I need to translate everything from Dutch to Englsih, so maybe some words are not translated right)Hello!I need to assign 100+ hyperlinks to different elements in my InDesign file, so I need keyboard shortcut to do it faster. But if I check keyboard shortcuts, I can not select 'Make Hyperlink' or anithing related. It is just not in the list. How can I assign a shortcut to 'Make hyperlink'? 

Un message d'erreur apparaît lors de l'éxécution de mes scripts depuis la mise à jour d'indesign.Ce message apparaît : "apple script erreur !ERREUR 9485 : erreur dans Abode Indesign 2025 impossible d'exporter le PDF"Est-ce que vous avez une solution à m'apporter ?Merci! 

I'm new to ID and am working on proposals. I need to place hundreds of pages of Word text that have embedded graphics and tables in them.  The graphics and tables that are the width of the text (6.5" width) seem to place well and are anchored within the text, which is what I want, but I'm having trouble with graphics and tables that are smaller and need text wrapping. What's the best way to be able to have text wrap around them in ID but also have them anchored to the text they are relevant to. Once placed, when I select them and click on "Wrap around bounding box" in the Text Wrap window, nothing happens.  If I can, I'd like to avoid stripping those graphics and tables out of the Word doc, saving them, and then placing them into ID. On a related note, graphics that are 11x17 seem to break the autotext flow; is there a better solution to that than removing the graphic via the Story Editor? Thanks so much!

Deseo saber si en InDesign existe una función igual o similar a la que hay en Ilustrador para adaptar una mesa de trabajo a la obra de arte, como se muestra en la ligadura adjunta; esto, con el fin de evitar o disminuir en InDesign, la serie de pasos que se requieren para adaptar las dimensiones de una hoja a las dimensiones de un marco de texto. Gracias. https://app.screencast.com/yk4CqH1plSoXb 

Bonjour,Je vais essayer d'expliquer clairement mon problème.Je travaille avec un deuxième écran, résolution différente de l'écran principal. Jusqu'à aujourd'hui, je n'avais aucun problème.Aujourd'hui sur InDesign, lorsque je travaille sur cet écran secondaire, j'ai un problème étrange d'affichage. Au moment où je saisi un objet avec le pointeur pour le déplacer, cet objet se retrouve subitement décalé de plusieurs mm en X et en Y par rapport à sa position initiale.Tout le reste de l'interface fonctionne bien, tous les menus, les boutons, les outils dans les différentes fenêtres. Au moment de créer les objets, aucun souci. C'est seulement au moment de déplacer par "cliquer-glisser" que ça bug.Je mets une capture d'écran pour l'exemple. J'ai créé ce carré rouge. Au moment où je clique dessus pour le déplacer, il apparait bien plus en haut à gauche (on voit son contour d'objet), alors que le pointeur de la souris est bien au niveau du carré rouge.Le bug survient sur tous les fichiers indd

I am reaching out to request assistance with a persistent issue I am experiencing with hyphenation in InDesign, particularly when working with both Cyrillic and Latin scripts in the Serbian language. Despite ensuring that dictionaries are correctly installed and configured, the hyphenation function fails to operate as expected. This issue is not limited to Serbian; I have also encountered problems with English hyphenation. However, when I adjust the settings to use the Proximity method, English hyphenation resumes normal function, an adjustment that, regrettably, does not resolve the issue for Serbian.This problem is not unique to my experience, suggesting a broader issue that affects multiple InDesign users on MacOS. The lack of functional hyphenation severely impacts the professionalism and efficiency of our work, creating significant annoying inconvenience.I kindly request your guidance or a solution to address this malfunction. Any suggestions, updates, or workarounds that could al

I am in the process of folding a large publication (over 250 pages) and making an accessible version of it. The publication has a lot of numbered footnotes. I tested how the screen reader reads the footnotes and it reads the reference number in the text, but not what is written in the reference information. This publication also contains links as references, but also explanations and the names of the source publication. What would be the best way to solve this so that the reading experience is smooth for the screen reader? It is a terrible job to make links to numbers manually. How have you solved such issues? The publication has been folded in InDesign and the footnotes have been transferred from the client's Word document to the fold. The footnote numbers have their own style, just like the footnotes for the texts. I have also defined the footnotes in the Document footnote options. As far as I understand, they have been made correctly, but there is no link between the number and

How do I change the position of bullets in indesign? 

I have a complex InDesign document that has several images.  Starting this morning, I can no longer move anything in the document using the mouse.  The only way I can move anything is by using the arrow keys.  Any ideas?