Here’s an outline of InDesign’s index feature:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/creating-index.html

It has a section ‘Generate an index’, you can look for that, but reading the whole article is probably useful.

> The scripts menu does contain a line-item called index_from_charstyles.txt

It’s a small text file written by the script to store the settings of the script’s dialog. Next time you run the script those data are placed in the dialog.

P.

Michel — So all that Jack Cane said was that he found the results of the discussion in the other thread ‘less than satisfying’. You may find that expression less than tactful, or maybe a bit ungrateful, or just clumsily expressed. I still think that your responses to him and to Masood Ahmad were out of line. But let’s not bore the forum any longer with this disagreement.

Peter

Michel — In the last example volander uses a character style, not a paragraph rule. And his image shows he just wants to add space at the start and the end of the paragraph (not before and after the paragraph).

P.

In that case you can replace ^.+$ with \x20$0\x20 (\x20 is the space character). If you have just text there then that works. A safer method would be to replace ^(.) with \x20$1 and (.)$ with $1\x20.

P.

Condition highlights don’t show in a PDF.

If you want to apply a colour you can use this one-liner:

app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().changes.everyItem().characters.everyItem().fillColor = app.documents[0].swatches.item(‘C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0’);

This uses the default colour ‘C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0’ — make sure it’s there, or use any other colour.

Peter

Track changes isn’t exposed in the Find/Change window, but you can add a character style to additions with the following one-liner (first create a character style called change and set any formatting):

app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().changes.everyItem().characters.everyItem().appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents[0].characterStyles.item(‘change’);

Peter

Yes.

There is no need to export the page and place it elsewhere, you can simply duplicate a page to another document. Open the ESTK (ExtendScript ToolKit), Adobe’s script editor. If you don’t know how this works, see Help > JavaScript Tools Guide CC for an overview. Browsing InDesign’s object model, check whether the Page object has what you’re looking for
: select your InDesign version under ‘Browser’, in the Classes’ panel, select Page. Then in the Properties and Methods panel, browse through the list. eventually you’ll find ‘move (to, reference, binding): Page’.

This is how you use that function: assume that you want to duplicate the first page of the active document after the third page of a document named ‘immigration.indd’ (which must be open). This one-line script does that:

app.activeDocument.pages[0].duplicate (LocationOptions.AFTER, app.documents.item(‘immigration.indd’).pages[2]);

Concretely, you’d do this. You mentioned labelling your page. You can do that by placing a tiny text frame (or a rectangle, graphic line, any page item) on the page and name it on the Layers panel. Call it e.g. ’emigrate’. That makes it very easy to find. Then duplicate the page on which the frame sits to the other document. This two-line script does that:

myPage = app.activeDocument.pageItems.item(’emigrate’).parentPage;
myPage.duplicate (LocationOptions.AFTER, app.documents.item(‘immigration.indd’).pages[2]);

This is a working script. You should add some error checking, but this is all you need.

Well, it could be. Is there any special reason why you want to export to PDF and place that PDF in the target document?

P.