David,

The script works great, however one thing I would tweak would be to change the application versions to their bundle id’s to eliminate needing to update the year throughout the script every time you update InDesign and Photoshop.

Change Application version lines
tell application 'Adobe Photoshop 2023" and tell application "Adobe InDesign 2020" (or which ever year of the applications you are running, these were just the years that were in the version of the script I downloaded)

to bundle id’s
tell application id "com.adobe.Photoshop" and tell application id "com.adobe.InDesign"

Maybe consult with Rob Day about this, he may have a reason why he didn’t do this, but it sure would save a lot of head aches and people having to modify the script.

So is it consistent with the other names like “Bob Andersen, PE” throughout but some just have more than one title such as Lori, “Lori Labrum, PE, PTOE” and you are only bolding though one title? If the first title consistent with 2-4 capital characters you might be able to do something like this:

(?<=\, ).+?, [A-Z]{2,4}

Unfortunately not, GREP isn’t smart enough to recognize consecutive numbers like that, but you could do it if you selected the numbers, but you would physically need to select each range of numbers which I’m not really sure would be any quicker.

Here is an example GREP for that (with text selected)
Find:(\d+),.+?(\d+)$
Change: $1–$2
Search: Selection

Aaron

Martin,
I’m not sure there is a way to do it natively within InDesign, but if you know a little HTML & CSS and feel comfortable unzipping and rezipping the file, you can always wrap your table in a div with a class that has the attribute page-break-inside:avoid; I can’t say it’s perfect but I’ve had fairly good results with it in the past.
That said, this type of thing is the nature of reflowable ebooks, things break across pages that sometimes you just can’t control like you can in print. And since your readers can change variables on the page such as text sizes, margins, and leading on their ereaders, sometimes you just have to throw up your hands and say “good enough.”
Aaron

Hey Austin,
I did a quick InDesignSecrets article search and ran across an article that David Blatner wrote that might be of interest to you regarding indexing plugins, it’s from 2014 but all the scripts/plugins should still be fairly relevant today.
https://indesignsecrets.com/alternatives-indesign-indexing.php
I’m sure there could be a work around with building a TOC with the names paragraph style, GREPing in a tab before the last name, converting to a table, swapping the First/Last Name Columns, and then converting back to text, but it might become a bit cumbersome to do each time a new name is added, and that doesn’t take into account that you’re wanting to do it across multiple files.
Aaron

Does text wrap do anything?