Moving a text in all spreads

Hi Alessandro, here's a simpler script that simply moves every text frame in the document left by 5 units and up by 20 units. If this would be useful in your case, just change the numbers 5 and 20 to the distances you need.

function main() {
    var _textFrames = app.activeDocument.textFrames;
    for (var i = 0; i < _textFrames.length; i++) {
        _textFrames[i].move(undefined, [-5, -20]);
    }
}

app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Move All TextFrames");

I strongly suggest you use an Object Style if it's a standalone frame not attached or anchored to anything else.

With Object Styles you can determine the X Y position - and then you only have to update the Object Style to position move the text frame.

Unfortunately you'll have to apply the Object Style manually to all frames you want it for. Which could be time consuming.

You might be able to Find/Change

But if your frame has a unique feature, like a certain thickness border - that nothing else has in the document you can use Find Change to find the Object and apply the style manually.

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InDesign has a built in recording of last movements.

So depending on how many spreads you have - the more time it will take.

Move the first one into position 

Then select your next frame

And choose Object>Transform again

You can assign a Keyboard Shortcut by going to

Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts

It's a little vague what you mean by author title, but if you have a specific instance of text that appears on each page, and you want to change something in each of them, then  I would put them in a paragraph style. And you can put them all in that style in hit without selecting them individually via  find + replace - the caveat being that you need to tell InDesign what to find. If it's identical to all your other text it's not possible, but usually you might have changed something that InDesign can use to identify it (colour, size, space before/after, leading - literally anything that makes it different to all other text in the document). Then you can enter those specs into the Find box and your new paragraph style into the Change box. And then, as they say, 'Bob's your Uncle!'. You can change them all at once.

Of course you need not create the new style - just enter the find values as above, and your altered ones in the change box. But by getting them in a paragraph style, you're in charge. 🙂