Script to only change y-position selected object(s)

[Lively_idealist0D45]

Hello,

My google searches were unsuccesful. Maybe what I want to do is possible in InDesign itself, or maybe with a simple script. What I would like to do:

Change the selected object(s) (text and/or images) Y-position / value to for example 27mm (from the top-margin) of the document. The X-position should stay as it was as selected. I can enter this manually in the tranform box, but I would like to assign a script to a shortcut because I use this a lot.

Regards,

Geert

[brian_p_dts · Accepted solution]

1. Are you always moving these objects to 27mm off the margin? If so, I would just use Object Styles with a fixed height position. Otherwise, I don't see how a script would be faster than using the transform field unless the script is doing other things. 

[Lively_idealist0D45]

Thanks, that worked! I thought it would'nt work because I wanted to keep the original (different) object styles. But I made an new object style that ignored every setting except the position so the rest of the stuff remains. Now I have the object style assigned to a key so it works perfect for me.