I set it up as a Windows app because it's convenient to use the auto
page numbers in master pages to quickly rebuild a document template
after major changes in layout, and then reset the new document
template's headers and footers to "Page (#) Header" or "Page (#) Footer"
with real numbers instead of automatic ones, so I can set those using
the FindChangeByList script later (after somebody tells me what they're
really going to say). This code would probably work with a few
modifications as Vbscript:

'Set up application and document objects
Dim IDapp As InDesign.Application = New InDesign.Application
Dim myDoc As InDesign.Document = IDapp.ActiveDocument
'Set up string variables

Dim findString As String = "Page <0018>"
'Search for the value in the Master text box
IDapp.FindTextPreferences.FindWhat = findString
'Find all instances of the find string and place in an array

Dim foundHead = myDoc.FindText()

Dim chngString As String = ""
'If the string was found
If foundHead.Count > 0 Then
'Get the page number of the text box footer string appears
in
Dim pnum As Integer = 0
Dim i As Integer = 1
'Loop through the instances
For i = 1 To foundHead.Count
pnum = foundHead(i).parentTextFrames(1).parent.name
chngString = "Page " & pnum
IDapp.ChangeTextPreferences.changeTo = chngString
'Change this instance
foundHead(i).ChangeText()


Next
'Announce completion
MsgBox("Find and Replace operation finished.")

Else
'Report failure
MsgBox(ControlChars.Quote & findString & ControlChars.Quote
& " not found.")
'End If for whether search string was found

End If

If you just wanted to find the number placeholder, obviously leave out
the "Page" part of the find string and change string.
Kathe Todd

Audio Editions

kathe-t@audioeditions.com




-----Original Message-----
From: InDesign Talk [mailto:indesign@lists.lassosoft.com] On Behalf Of
Michael Brady
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:07 AM
To: InDesign Talk
Subject: [SPF - SPAM] - Converting automatic page numbers to fixed
numbers

Is there a way to do that? ID has a command to convert automatically
numbered paragraphs to fixed numbers, so I thought there might be a way
to convert autopage numbers (on the live page, not on the MP) to
editable text. CS5 or CS4?


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