Cut/paste text in a new Text Frame, and place it on the text original position

[r36058804bwut]

Hi , how are you all

I want a script that cut selected text from me , and paste it in a new text frame at the exact place of the selected text without changing anything in its format or place

Thanks

[r36058804bwut]

Any Help

[jmlevy]

Why don't you simply use a snippet?

[r36058804bwut]

I don't know snippt

Is this apply what I want ?

[jmlevy]

Snippet are layout elements, it can be text frames, image frames, lines, whatever you want.

Just create the text frame where you need it, export it as a snippet. Then you can place this snippet and it will come at the same place than the original frame. See help here: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/reusing-graphics-text.html

[r36058804bwut]

I have a word file that I imported to indesign , I want to split some text of it to be able to move them alone ( separatelly ) so I need script 

[Willi Adelberger]

Use the script to divide text frames based on a paragraph style. It is installed. 

[r36058804bwut]

There is no paragraph styles 

[Mike Witherell]

You should get to know...

Edit menu > Paste in Place

and another possibility...

Edit menu > Paste Without Formatting

I'm not sure why you would need a script. What are you trying to do?

[r36058804bwut]

I want to separate parts of whole text ( story ) to be able to move them alone as a single units 

[Mike Witherell]

Hi R,

And why not simply drag n drop the text paragraphs in order to get the order you wish? BTW, that feature, oddly, has to be enabled in Preferences > Type > Drag n Drop Text Editing > Enable in Layout View

[r36058804bwut]

It is very amazing feature , I tried it but that is we have one big story , and if we use this feature text layout will be different 

Ex . If I press Enter , the next text will shift to the next page 

I don't want that

[Mike Witherell]

Forgive me for not understanding what your skill level is. Did you know that pressing the Enter key on the numeric keypad part of your full-size keyboard is the InDesign command to Page Break? Of course, the other common Return/Enter key next to the ditto key is the correct Return/Enter key for a new paragraph.

[r36058804bwut]

I want to keep the file layout and not carry over the story contents to the next pages , so I want a script that can divide the parts I want to remain on the page into separate text boxes so that they are not carried over.

[brian_p_dts]

Have you tried the builtin StorySplitter script in the scripts panel?

[m1b]

@r36058804bwut does this script help at all? Similar to what Brian asked already but you didn't answer.

[r36058804bwut]

No , I tried it and nothing to do 

I want to select manually the text that I want and make a text frame for this text only at the exact position of the original text , not to splity story only

[m1b]

Okay, please post an .indd showing BEFORE the split, and AFTER the split. Then we can see exactly what you expect to happen.

[r36058804bwut]

for example : this is the text that i select 

I want to be that ( in a separate text frame at the same place of the original text )

[m1b]

You are almost there! But those screenshots don't show what I need to see. Please post an .indd document showing before and after*. You can attach it to a post here.

[r36058804bwut]

you also don't see anything before or after , It is just .indd file , the text that i imported from word file , I broke the thread by sript to separate each page in separate text frame

I showed you what I want to do 

here is the .indd file

[r36058804bwut]

Any help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[m1b]

If this is urgent @r36058804bwut perhaps you could offer to pay someone for their time to script exactly what you want. It is hard to write a script given vague instructions and no example document to help. Oh, and if it isn't fun for them, nobody will do it for free.

- Mark

[r36058804bwut]

I uploaded the .indd file , I showed you what I want to do 

[r36058804bwut]

Any Help in creating the script