Thank you David. ‘Unlink’ works fine for linked files. But for broken files (like my docx. etc) ‘unlink’ is greyed out. Therefore, I cannot remove these broken links. HELP!

Thanks Kai

I have followed your instructions exactly but with mixed results!

I do end up with a bigger space before the page number so that is good, and it is workable but not yet ideal. Why? Because the space is now too big! And when I experiment with the ‘codes’ in the “Between entry and number” ^<^y^> I cannot seem to reduce the space. In fact, I cannot seem to control the space at all with these codes… when I try a “thin’ or ‘hair’ space it is the same. When I try an en-space it is the same. If I try nothing and simply have the right-intent-tab code I get the strange result of the same space but with the second digit of the page number bigger than the first. I know I am doing something wrong, but I cannot see it.

Is it something to do with the tab position in the paragraph style? My read of your instruction leads me to conclude that you mean that the tab position bears no relation to the location of the page numbers, i.e. we’re simply just using this feature in the paragraph style to generate the actual leader dots.

Sorry, I’ve tried playing with this for a few hours, but cannot seems to figure it out.

@kai thank you. Now I need to figure out how to implement your script (I’m pretty new to InDesign). I did manage to download and adjust the previous script mentioned in this trail, but with that, I had a file to work with. I’m not sure how to implement your script without a file etc. Any pointers? Thanks

David and Kai

Thank you so much for all this help. I feel a little dumb not figuring out the ‘alternating rows/columns’ issue, but on the other hand, I don’t think Adobe makes that super obvious! Thank you again David.

And Kai, thank you for the footer row trick to remove the unwanted strokes on my table that spans text frames. Excellent. Now I have what I wanted!

I’ll try out the ‘column width’ scripting. Wow… scripts!!! You guys are making me begin to feel like an expert!

That worked like a dream. It was the language of ‘alternating’ in the table style that confused me. I didn’t;t want alternating strokes so assumed that I had to do it in the cell style. Now everything works great.

I downloaded a helpful script from your website that enables me to resize my table to the size of the text frame. Is there such a script that will also allow me to apply column width size to my table columns?

Thank again. I had many frustrating hours yesterday and one supreme moment off happiness today when this worked!

Yes, that did the trick. Thanks!