Active Scripts
Unless otherwise indicated, these scripts work with versions of InDesign dating back to CS3 (2007).
Book and Long Document Composition/Production
- Accessibility-Compliant Table of Contents
- Book Page Extents
- Book Panel Extras
- Book: Show Documents Sorted
- Continue Footnote Numbering in Book Documents
- Custom Running Headers
- End-of-book Notes
- Endnote Running Headers
- Endnotes as Pop-Up Footnotes
- Footnote Breakline: Set Multiple Footnotes on the Same Line
- Get Hyphens
- Go to a Line
- Go to the Parent Spread Applied to the Active Spread
- InDesign Endnotes to Static Endnotes
- Number Style Overrides in Books
- Page Setup
- Set Quickmark
- Synchronise Footnote Options
- Text Styles in Text Variables
- Two-Way Hyperlinks/Footnotes
Book Panel
- Book Page Extents
- Book Panel Extras
- Book: Show Documents Sorted
- Continue Footnote Numbering in Book Documents
- Export Book Documents to Individual PDFs
- Find and Change in Book Files
- Go to Page
- Index: Number Style Overrides in Books
- Number Style Overrides in Books
- Synchronise Footnote Options
GREP
- GREP Change Case (Pre-2024)
- GREP Class Inserter
- GREP Editor
- GREP Mapper: Display the Scope of GREP Wildcards
- GREP Preview
- GREP Query Manager
- GREP Query Runner
- GREP Style Report
- GREP Styles to Local Character Styles
Indexes and Concordances
- Build or Rebuilid an Index from Tags
- Fix Cross Reference Types
- Index Concordancer
- Index Direct from Word List
- Index from Topics List
- Index Graph: Show the Distribution of Index Markers
- Index Page Ranges
- Index Statistics
- Index to Text: Convert Page References to Text Tags
- Index Topics from Styles or Conditions
- Index Topics from Text Tags
- Index: Add Page References to Imported Topics
- Index: Edit Topics
- Index: Ignore Insignificant Words
- Index: Number Style Overrides in Books
- Number Style Overrides in Books
- Set Keep Options in an Index
- Skip Style: Format First Lines in Index Sections
- Sort and Combine Cross References
- Sort Cross References
- Update Index
Interface
- Filtered File > Open Dialog Box
- Icon Catalogue
- Page Setup
- Point Editor
- Remove Imported-Style Symbols
- Rotate Multiple Spreads
- Sort Parent Pages by Prefix
- Spread Rotation Menu Commands
Notes
- Blind Endnotes
- Blind Endnotes Keyed With Key Phrases
- Convert Endnotes to Footnotes (Pre-CC2018)
- Convert Footnotes to Endnotes (Pre-CC2018)
- Dynamic Endnotes
- Dynamic Sidenotes
- End-of-book Notes
- Endnote Running Headers
- Endnotes as Pop-Up Footnotes
- Footnote Breakline: Set Multiple Footnotes on the Same Line
- Footnote Spacing (Pre-CC2017)
- Footnotes and Columns
- Footnotes to End-of-Book Notes
- InDesign Endnotes to Static Endnotes
- Table Footnotes (CC2019–)
- Text Anchors
- Two-Way Hyperlinks/Footnotes
Output/Prepress Tools
- Composite fonts
- Export Book Documents to Individual PDFs
- Font Substitution
- Show Document Font Data
- Smarter PDF Export
Scripting Tools
Tables
Type and Text
- Clean Up Spurious White Space
- Compose Greek with Preview: Enter Mono- and Polytonic Greek
- Compose: Enter Characters with Diacritics and Other Special Sorts
- Create kerning report
- Drop Digits (Number-Span Elision)
- Fine-Tune Paragraph Spacing
- Get Hyphens
- Gloss Alignment
- Go to a Line
- Highlight Word- and Letter-Spacing Overrides
- LaTeX to InDesign
- Missing Glyphs
- Move Selected Paragraphs
- Number Style Overrides in Books
- Paragraph Numbering Fix
- Place Equation: Import and Baseline-Align Math Equations Created With Radical Pie
- Place Multiple Word and RTF Documents
- Price Adjuster
- Right-to-Left Panel: Expose Middle-East properties in any InDesign version
- Set Keep Options in an Index
- Set Quickmark
- Show Document Font Data
- Show No Break
- Show Word Division
- Show/Set Custom Text Variables
- Swap Thousands/Decimals
- Table Merge
- Table Sort
- Table: Rotate Column Headers
- Text Anchors
- Text Styles in Text Variables
- Title Case
Word Division/Hyphenation
Obsolete Scripts
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This article was last modified on September 6, 2026
This article was first published on January 1, 2026
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