Creating search tool in pages panel in Indesign

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December 11, 2024
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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!

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FRIdNGE

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

(^/) The Jedi

James Gifford—NitroPress

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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!

(^/)

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@defaultcknpr2xs9scf

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

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@defaultcknpr2xs9scf

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

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

James Gifford—NitroPress

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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.