This should convert all your tables’ last rows to footer rows:

app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Process Table");
function main(){
    allTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
    for (aTable=0; aTable<allTables.length; aTable++)
    allTables[aTable].rows[-1].rowType = RowTypes.FOOTER_ROW;
    }

You can upload a picture to any image-hosting website (such as imgur.com or dropbox.com) and post the link here.

Do a GREP Find/Change with the following settings:

Find What: \r\r

Change To: \r

Hit “Change All”.

This basically finds any instance of two carriage returns one after the other, and replaces it with just one.

Whenever you include a backlash within quotes in a script, the script will get confused. For example, if you write: findWhat: "\r" JavaScript will think that you want to insert an actual return in that string (because that’s the way it’s done in JavaScript). So whenever you include a GREP query in a script, any backslashes have to be escaped again. So instead of \r it has to be r.

In other words, for every backslash: one more. (except when you already have two backslashes, such as when you’re searching for an actual backslash, then you have to write three backslashes, not four.

So in your case, that would be like this:

{findWhat:”(s)(d+.d+)(,s)(d+.d+)(,s)(d+.d+)(,s)(d+.d+)(s)”} {changeTo:”t$2t$4t$6t$8t”} {}

I tried using the code from Harbs that you provided, and it’s working fine by me even for frames that are anchored in tables. Maybe I misunderstood your question. Help me out…

Try this: In document ‘b’ select the frame that holds the placed ‘a’ file, and give it the color Paper (or any color that you wish). This will place the color behind the graphic, and will effectively block the background from ‘b’ to show through.

Try this out:

//Ari S. - designerjoe@outlook.com
// Delete empty anchored frames
app.scriptPreferences.enableRedraw = false;
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Delete Empty Anchored Frames");
function main(){
    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "~a";
    var myFound = myDoc.findGrep(true);
    for (i = (myFound.length - 1); i >= 0; i--){
        var myAnchorPosition = myFound[i];
        if (myAnchorPosition.texts[0].pageItems[0].contents == ""){
            myAnchorPosition.texts[0].pageItems[0].remove();
            }
        }
    }

One more thing, this script will not work if the Page Numbering View settings (found in the General pane of the InDesign preferences) is set to “Absolute Numbering”.

But it’s probably not an issue anyway because the default is “Section Numbering”.