If you have to do this often,consider buying pitstop pro. You get a lot of action lists.

1. indeed, as long as you update the book file too. If not al little yellow warning sign when you open the book file will tell you a “chapter” has been changed.

2. Every “chapter” can have his own styles, no problem I think. Since you didn’t know that it would become a book, styles can be different.

A book file = all the files are still separate items, grouped under a new name (kind of “virtual folder with pointers to the different files which make up the book”).
Learning curve? Not so long, just create the book file, add the chapters, save the book file. Just don’t sync the styles, so all the styles in the different chapters will not be affected.

If the phone number has a fixed format, cannot you try to do a grep search for the number and precede the result with a “tab”?

@michael: Everything that can split documents is interesting. just send it to gertverrept@gmail.com

I found something similar, long time ago, don’t know who made it, but it still works, so I’ll post it here too

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var myLanguages = new Array();

for (j=0;j<app.languagesWithVendors.length;j++){
myLanguages.push(app.languagesWithVendors[j].name);
}

myDlg = new Window(‘dialog’, ‘Select language’);
myDlg.orientation = ‘column’;
myDlg.alignment = ‘right’;
//add drop-down
myDlg.DDgroup = myDlg.add(‘group’);
myDlg.DDgroup.orientation = ‘row’;
myDlg.DDgroup.add(‘statictext’, undefined, “Languages”);
myDlg.DDgroup.DD = myDlg.DDgroup.add(‘dropdownlist’, undefined, undefined, {items:myLanguages})
myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection = 7;
myDlg.closeBtn = myDlg.add(‘button’, undefined, ‘OK’);

// add button functions
myDlg.closeBtn.onClick = function()
{ this.parent.close();
}
result = myDlg.show();
alert(myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection);

for (i=0;i<myDoc.paragraphStyles.length;i++){
try{
myDoc.paragraphStyles[i].appliedLanguage = app.languagesWithVendors.item(myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection.index);
}catch(e){}
}

for (k=0;k<myDoc.characterStyles.length;k++){
try{
myDoc.characterStyles[k].appliedLanguage = app.languagesWithVendors.item(myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection.index);
}catch(e){}
}

@michael I’m very interested too for such a script, if possible, you can send it to gertverrept[at]gmail[dot]com
Thanks in advance!

It’s possible that you have to use the setup tab in the print dialog box to get to the prefs of the printer and change the settings as needed.