Thanks David – that's great. I'm just looking at the trial version.

Is there a way to thread all the text frames to create one continuous flow? Or is that another plugin?

Thanks again for your help.

I've put those links etc in my favourites and not being a code minded person know its going to take some trawling through. But as you, or Kay says,”It's worth it…”

I remember getting quite excited by XML when I heard about it on the Indesign Secrets podcast one time (each episode of which I've listened to at least twice (maybe thrice?)). I'm keen to integrate what I do in print with my web presence using a wordpress blog, i.e. people post events, etc on the website which goes to a mysql database, I then create a .csv from that, create an xml file, import into Indesign and so on. I believe that's possible, right?

Thanks for all your help, and thus, encouragement.

Here's a sample of what I'm doing now…

<contact>

<department></department> (the category heading if you like)

<name></name>

<phonemobile><phone></phone><mobile></mobile></phonemobile>

<email></email>

</contact>

I can see what you're suggesting in having the <department></department> tags wrap the rest of the content.

How would I lay this out in in the original spreadsheet I wonder from which the XML derives?

In my browser (firefox) if I press Alt+Spacebar once, it brings up the active window as you suggest JOngware. I've raised this as a potential issue with Adobe as suggested by Bob, but with the help of your feedback, I've gone into the Sound options on my PCs control panel, and found that 'Default Beep' was the offending element. I don't know if I'll miss this sound elsewhere, but it appears to have resolved my Indesign and Photoshop issue.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks Jongware

I was getting confused between Properties and Preferences which is why I couldn't find it (duh).

Hi.

Having read and thought about both of your suggestions, here is the workaround I've developed that seems to work:

– In each image, through Bridge or when creating them in Photoshop, I insert the description in File Info;

– I create a paragraph style in Indesign, 'Advert';

– I place the images into my document and then follow these instructions using this script: https://creativepro.com/mod&#8230;..&nbsp; I select XMP Description from the label type, and then Advert from the label style.  If you have multiple images to apply captions to, leave them all unselected and the following notice displays 'Add captions to all images in the document?'.  Click OK and job done;

– Once the captions (tags) are in place (automatically created on their own new layer called 'labels') I uncheck the Print Layer box under the Layer Options for 'layers';

– I then create a TOC using David's suggestion above, making the list alphabetical.

This seems to work well, though I can't group an image with it's caption as the image won't then print (I imagine the no print option for labels is applied to the image).  I suppose a work around for this is to have the label text have no colour instead of the label layer Print Layer option being unchecked, but the downside is that you don't get to see the label then.

Anyway, I hope this helps and if anyone has any other suggestions I'm all ears.

Cheers.

That's great.  Thanks.