Addendum: When clicked they go to proper square appearance, but only until I move the mouse away, at which point they have the default circular radio button appearance again.

[On a side note, in case it helps someone: I encountered a bugaboo with check boxes not toggling off when clicked — ie, a checked box not getting UNchecked when clicked. Once checked, it was permanently that way. This turned out to be due to my having named the buttons with decimals in them, ala 1.a, 1.b, etc. Changing the decimals to dashes fixed that and now they behave normally…]

Addendum 2: And it solved the appearance problem for the check boxes. They no longer look like radio buttons after the renaming, even with preference turned on. But the square radio buttons are still becoming circular, which I don’t want.

Thanks David. Wow, I’m surprised my Google searching doesn’t reveal anyone else having encountered this problem.

Well, I’m working on a fix in case it helps anyone. Here’s an Applescript that dumps contents of all text frames of the active Excel doc into page 1 of the active ID file (paste into Script Editor and hit Enter key to see proper formatting — and change the en dashes in comments into 2 hyphens; this site auto-‘cleaned’ them when I pasted):

set textbox_text to {“”}

tell application “Microsoft Excel”
tell active workbook
repeat with y from 0 to count of sheets
tell sheet y
–get properties of text frame 1
repeat with x from (count of textboxes) to 1 by -1
set textbox_text to textbox_text & caption of textbox x & return & return
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end tell

textbox_text

tell application “Adobe InDesign CS6”
–Find change needed to add proper paragraph ends where before were forced line breaks
set find grep preferences to nothing
set change grep preferences to nothing
set find text preferences to nothing
set change text preferences to nothing
set find what of find text preferences to “^n” –forced line break from Excel text box
set change to of change text preferences to “^p” –end of paragraph

activate
tell active document
tell page 1
make new text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{2, 1.8, 27, 19.8}, contents:textbox_text as string}
end tell
end tell

set myFoundItems to change text

end tell

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the tips. My process for this is to use the cmd-shift shortcut while dragging a corner anchor point of the selected group. This scales them all proportionally without needing to type.

Aaron

Hi David,

Wow, I never realized that! Thanks for enlightening me.

No, I’m not getting strokes around the frames. What I’d like, then, is to have the multiple images in a grid at a similar size, but with each frame fitting exactly to its image’s proportions. At least the option to do so. [This is for situations when I’m just putting a batch on the pasteboard to draw from in a design; I’m not wanting to actually have them all grid-aligned in same-sized frames.]