Script to extract column from a table and paste it as a text frame

[gifted_person98BC]

Hi, everybody!
I wonder if there's a way —or maybe there's a script that already exist— to convert all columns from all tables in a document to individuals text frames with the same high and widh lenght that had as table columns and preserving the same paragraph style from each cell.

[S Hopkins]

Hi,

The following sample script demonstrates getting the information you want from a table.

set colInfo to {}

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

  set tableRef to table 1 of story 1 of document 1

  set colList to columns of tableRef

  repeat with i from 1 to length of colList

  set thisCol to item i of colList

  set celList to cells of thisCol

  set wid to width of thisCol

  set totHgt to 0

  set celInfo to {}

  repeat with j from 1 to length of celList

  set thisCel to item j of celList

  set c to contents of contents of thisCel

  set s to applied paragraph style of paragraph 1 of thisCel

  set h to height of thisCel

  set end of celInfo to {c, s}

  set totHgt to totHgt + h

  end repeat

  set end of colInfo to {celInfo, wid, totHgt}

  end repeat

This creates a nested list of lists that you can then parse to create your text frames with contents and styling. Hope this helps.

[FRIdNGE]

Just by curiosity! … For what use?

Best,

Michel, from FRIdNGE