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There is a caveat emptor with this; it assumes the spaces between your “aardvarks” and “234” are also italics; if not, this GREP will find the number, because it's a number in italics without anything before or after (in italics).

Try this, for the main text:

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().clearOverrides(OverrideType.ALL);

I think it doesn't work for text in tables and/or footnotes, because these are part of some other internal model.

Well, it works:

— but with some minor caveats. It seems the default top offset, 0 (in your preferred units of measure), aligns with the baseline of the first line. So you have to adjust for the line height yourself — by eye, because InDesign's line height does not start on the baseline but a little below. It's similar to the “Top Paragraph Rule” in that aspect.

Another one is that the added definitions don't appear in Tagged Text Export, INX, or IDML.

And another one is that you can only apply it per paragraph style, trying to access it with the Paragraph panel pops up a friendly alert saying “In Next Version” :)

But– it does What It Promises! Edit the text inside the box/border to make it more or less lines long, and the box automatically adjusts!

I intend to d/l the demo and try it out. The demo doesn't print, but that's o-kay by me — I'm pretty sure DTPUtils know their Page Adornments inside-out. :)

I'll try this at home, probably somewhere in the week-end; not at work, 'cause no matter what, I'm not going to install any demo on my work machine! (What if my colleagues get a “You need this plug-in” message on every file I've made?)

What an odd way to work :) Is that to move objects around very precisely? If I need that, I type the value right into the Control Panel position fields.

The default Nudges include these ones:

Nudge right — Default: Right Arrow
Nudge right 1/10 — Default: Shift+Ctrl+Right Arrow
Nudge right 1/10 duplicate — Default: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow
Nudge right duplicate — Default: Alt+Right Arrow
Nudge right x10 — Default: Shift+Right Arrow
Nudge right x10 duplicate — Default: Shift+Alt+Right Arrow

so by default you can use your standard increment, as well as 1/10th and x10 of its value — if you enter “10mm” as the default nudge, you can move around in 1 mm steps as well as 10 cm (that last one might be a bit too much).

Here is a small script to change the values to some preset, but you need a different script for each of your values and (probably) assign a shortcut key to each of the scripts as well (since you're obviously a Keyboard Jockey, as I am!).

This simple one-line Javascript sets the increment to whatever you fancy:

I recall from a similar post on the InDesign User's forum that the secret lies in the line endings.

Try https://forums.adobe.com/message/1304548 (it's not the one I was expecting to find, but there you go. Seems the Search Post functionality on Adobe forums is broken. Again.)

(After remembering the Magic Keyword to Google For:) This one was it: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/746804

In another related post I found a tip of myself ( :) ):

“I did find out something new, tho' (for me). If you select “Show Options”, you can see right away if ID recognizes any text file as Tagged text — even though you selected it with the “All files” type. ID shows an ASCII options dialog for plain, and Tagged Text options for recognized stuff.”

JTT,

I've gotten the script from Harb's that allows to turn spreads off so that the exported pdf file will individual pages.

That toggle is built-in. Surely you are not confusing a PDF with an SWF?

… after the nightmares I've had trying to add/delete pages from a document built with facing pages, and having all the content alignment go totally whack …

Rather than avoiding the issue altogether, you might want to look into the proper way of adding, deleting, and moving pages around; the Online Help should get you started.

The only time InDesign seems to have a mind of its own is when you play with the “Allow Document Pages to Shuffle” and/or “Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle” options. Other than that, I have no problems whatsoever adding or deleting pages. I usually work with facing pages with a mirrored layout, so I guess I would have noticed it when the text frames always go awry after a page edit.