If you find yourself often cutting and pasting (or even drag and dropping) to rearrange paragraphs in InDesign, you’re going to love a new pair of scripts from Peter Kahrel. One script moves selected paragraphs before the preceding paragraph, the other script moves them after the following paragraph.
Selecting paragraphs to move is very easy. To target a single paragraph all you need to do is put your cursor anywhere in it. To target multiple paragraphs just have some text selected in each one.
Then run the scripts to move the text up or down.
Before running the Move Para Up script
After running the script
Assign keyboard shortcuts to both scripts and you’ll be rearranging paragraphs in the blink of an eye.
You can read more about the scripts and download them here.
Thanks, Peter!
For a deep dive on sorting text in InDesign, check out Jeff Potter’s article in Issue #143 of InDesign Magazine.
This article was last modified on July 29, 2022
This article was first published on August 16, 2021
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