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20 Awesome Scripts You Need to Know About

Erica Gamet
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InDesign Magazine issue 127: InDesign at 20This article appeared in Issue 127 of InDesign Magazine.

A collection of handy scripts to help with tasks large and small.

I like to refer to scripts and other add-ons as “InDesign’s Little Helpers.” They are easy to install (usually no restart required!) and are often my favorite price (FREE!*). But mostly I love finding scripts that perform a task that InDesign doesn’t do natively, or that the script just does better. They make InDesign life easier, which is always a good thing. In this article I’ll focus mainly on scripts that have never appeared in InDesign Magazine before, while tossing in a few noteworthy classics that are just as useful today as when they were written.
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Erica Gamet
Erica Gamet has been involved in the graphics industry for over 35 years. She is a speaker, writer, trainer, and content creator focusing on Adobe InDesign, Apple Keynote, and varied production topics. She is a regular presenter at CreativePro Week, regular contributor to CreativePro Magazine, and has spoken at Canada’s ebookcraft, Adobe MAX, and Making Design in Oslo, Norway. Find Erica online at the CreativePro YouTube channel, CreativeLive.com and through her own YouTube channel. When she isn’t at her computer she’s probably daydreaming about travel or living in a Nordic noir landscape.

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  • Chandra Skinner says:
    November 18, 2019 at 11:07 pm

    This is a great article. I have been working with Indesign for only a few years, but I learn something everytime. The merge tables script is great. Can it unmerge tables also, such as splitting a calendar with more than 1 layer across 2 pages with a spine?

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    • Erica Gamet says:
      November 20, 2019 at 9:49 pm

      Glad it was helpful! The script doesn’t split tables, no. What do you mean “more than one layer” in a table? Because if you just need to continue the table on the next page, you can just link text frames.

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  • Robin Williams says:
    November 22, 2019 at 7:25 am

    Thanks for this listing. I was having difficulty using the StyLighter script and the appliedparagraphStyle is very helpful and efficient.

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  • Richard Coda says:
    July 28, 2022 at 10:43 am

    Is Peter’s site down? All links for his scripts is not found.

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  • Christina Rowland says:
    July 28, 2022 at 12:45 pm

    I was hoping to get an updated Calendar script but I get a “This site can’t be reached” error. Did the script get relocated?

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