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Question

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

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
July 17, 2025
7 replies
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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

Scripting

R

r36058804bwutAuthor

Inspiring

Any Help in creating the script

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Use the existing and preinstalled script.

R

r36058804bwutAuthor

Inspiring

this script can't make text frame from the text selected manually

R

r36058804bwutAuthor

Inspiring

Any Help in creating the script

R

r36058804bwutAuthor

Inspiring

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

m1b

Community Expert

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

R

r36058804bwutAuthor

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

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

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

Mike Witherell

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r36058804bwutAuthor

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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

brian_p_dts

Community Expert

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.

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

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

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?

Mike Witherell

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r36058804bwutAuthor

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

jmlevy

Community Expert

Why don't you simply use a snippet?

R

r36058804bwutAuthor

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I don't know snippt

Is this apply what I want ?

jmlevy

Community Expert

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

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