Im trying to sort a table that I already created. Total waste of time. Dear Mr Anonymous from March 27 Thanks for the simple instructions. Fast simple effective HAve a good day. Post a Comment. Tuesday, May 5, Alphabetical list in InDesign. This tip ia about alphabetizing a list in InDesign.
InDesign does not have a sort function, so if you need a list in alphabetical order it can be a problem, especially if it is really long. Here's a quick trick to make a list that can be updated at any time. Make a list in InDesign 2. Adobe Support Community. Turn on suggestions.
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Home InDesign Discussions Sorting pages alphabetically. Sorting pages alphabetically. Hi, I am trying to find a way of quickly sorting pages alphabetically in Indesign Is there a script I can use to do this or do I have to manually re-order my pages?
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Follow Report. Community guidelines. Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more. Adobe Employee , Nov 13, Nov 13, How hard is it really? The script Adobe provides is very slow. Check a different solution by Peter Kahrel for sorting paragraphs:.
Adobe is piling up so much unnecessary features on every new version of InDesign. And we have a simple function as this, thats not only hidden in the scripts, but its buggy. Adobe should have their Indesign engineers read Indesignsecrets.
The scripts that come with InDesign are there as examples of scripts that can be built, and used as a starting point — not really to be used out of the box, but many can. Unfortunately you need to know how to script to customise them. Luckily the Indesign Scripting forum is awash with people willing to help people with scripts.
I would argue that InDesign is a page layout tool. All the text should be sorted, and in order when it comes to you. Although a lot of people do.
I would rather use tools better associated with Database sorting to sort my Tables, paragraphs of text etc. Consider manually adding a leading zero before single-digit numbers, like 01, 02, etc.
Create a GREP or nested paragraph style that applies a Paper colored character style to the leading zero that begins a paragraph, and ignore other paragraphs. This will preserve the correct numeric order, and will also align the single-digit numbers with two-digit numbers. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. I wish to know if there is a change to sort page numbers in the table of contents but not just first digit but a number as a whole e.
When I use Script it only sorts the numbers by the first digit so it the end I have sorted it like : 1,10,,2,20,,3,30, etc.. How can I fix it? Hi David, I am wondering if you have anything regarding the sorting of Indexes. I am running into the problem that InDesign sorts character and my editor wants it sorted by word, so when the Index entry goes like this:.
Do you know of any feature to handle this? I know FrameMaker has it. I wonder if InDesign does too. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Advanced Search. Forgot Password?
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