Creating search tool in pages panel in Indesign

[defaultcknpr2xs9scf]

It would be amazing if Adobe added a search tool inside the pages panel in Indesign to search for specific pages! I work with templates all the time and give each page a unique title, but it'd be great if I could quickly search and locate them instead of scrolling through the entire doc. With working in documents with 100+ pages this would be huge!

[Peter Kahrel]

You can submit feature requests here: https://indesign.uservoice.com

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

You use ~100 Parent pages in a document? That's quite an outlier, I think. I wouldn't put any weight on Adobe adding features to support that kind of usage. I'd wager that few docs get more than 12, if more than 3-4, which makes a search pretty much moot.

Between organized names and 16 colors, though, it seems like you could make the manual search a lot easier.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@James Gifford—NitroPress

Regular pages. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I wasn't aware it was possible to give document pages "a unique title" — I assumed the OP meant the Parent page names.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@defaultcknpr2xs9scf

Turn off "Show vertically" in the panel's options.

Then use colors as suggested by @James Gifford—NitroPress.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@defaultcknpr2xs9scf

If you are on a PC - you could use free version of my ID-Tasker tool. 

[FRIdNGE]

Written years ago for a client for such matter! Just For Fun!  😉

(^/)  The Jedi

[defaultcknpr2xs9scf]

Super cool! This is kind of what I was imagining to easily search through and click to specific pages in the document.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Clever! I ass/u/me you're poking a text string into the page number field. Does it change/interfere with actual document page numbering?

[FRIdNGE]

No! It's a layout choice:  InDesign Prefs (tab "General" => Page Numbering) and Page "Numbering & Section Options". So you can have this kind of absolute numbering with a "section" game in background! Pretty cool!

(^/)

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Oh, I didn't notice the page numbers hiding at the end of the strings. Much simpler than I'd thought — but still clever stuff!