You find that the way you find the script code for any InDesign marker: insert it in the Find/Change dialog and you’re there. In this case, open the Find/Change dialog, click the @ next to the ‘Find what’ field, click ‘Markers’ then ‘Footnote reference marker’. You’ll now see ~F in the ‘Find what’ field and that’s what you use in your script:

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ‘~F’;

(or ^F if you use text rather than grep).

Peter

I have used this script for that:

(function () {
	var stories = app.documents[0].stories;
	var ix;
	for (var i = stories.length-1; i > -1; i--) {
		while (stories[i].textFrames.length > 0) {
			ix = stories[i].textFrames[-1].parent.index;
			stories[i].textFrames[-1].texts[0].move (LocationOptions.AFTER, stories[i].insertionPoints[ix]);
			if (stories[i].textFrames[-1].locked) {
				stories[i].textFrames[-1].locked = false;
			}
			stories[i].textFrames[-1].remove();
		}
	}
}());

Missed that… Change this line:

if (cells[j-1].contents == '')

to this:

if (cells[j].contents == '')

P.

It’s not so clear what’s going wrong. And that script is rather inefficient — here is another approach:

var i, j, cells;
// Get all the rows in the document
var rows = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
	// Get all the cells in a row
	cells = rows[i].cells.everyItem().getElements();
	for (j = cells.length-1; j >= 1; j--) {
		if (cells[j-1].contents == '') {
			cells[j-1].merge (cells[j]);
		}
	}
}

P.

paragraphstyles should be paragraphStyles (JavaScript is case-sensitive). But it’s spelled correctly in your code. And your script works fine.

P.

Saw Kal’s post only a minute ago. Now why didn’t I think of GREP :)? But it can be done simpler:

Find what: (.)\Z
Replace with: $1-X

(.)\Z matches any character at the end of a story and replaces it it with itself and -X

P.

You have to be able to identify text frames on the document pages, and the easiest way to achieve that would be to name them on your master pages. So if you have two text frames on each page, one at the top and one at the bottom, name the top one ‘A’ on the Layers panel. Then override the top frame on the first page and place text in it. The frame will be overset. Now write a script that, while the story is overset, adds a page, overrides frame ‘A’, and links it to the previous frame ‘A’. You can do that with as many frames as needed, call them ‘B’, ‘C’, etc.