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Perhaps one of the experts that frequent this forum might be able to assist me? Hi Karen-- You might take a look at the SortParagraphs. Thanks for the feedback - I'll give each solution a try and see which works best for our application. Thanks again for the help, Karen. I just tried doing this in Word which can sort paragraphs quite nicely. Comments 2 Comments Categories Software.

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I was just now treated to this shadow on my living room wall, made by branches of the locust tree out front. So where do we find these magical scripts? They come pre-installed with an InDesign installation. The default install in InDesign will provide a series of Sample Scripts. AppleScript as the name says, is specific to the Mac OS. Plenty of Scripts there as you can see. I posted a summary of what each of these does quite some time ago.

Time to start sorting those paragraphs. Start by highlighting the paragraphs that need to be sorted Type tool. There are a number of methods you can use to execute the script: Double clicking the script name in the list, or selecting the script then choosing Run Script from the Script panel menu. You can even assign a keyboard shortcut to a script if you want.

First input requested from us as a user of the script is whether or not the Sort Method choose needs to Retain the formatting of the highlighted text. However if you have formatted your text, then use Retain Formatting.

Depending on how much text you have highlighted… it might still all be sorted in a blink of an eye! Ignore Spaces, when selected basically ignores any leading spaces found at the start of a paragraph, and sorts on the first non-space character found in that paragraph. So if you want your spaces to sort at the top of the sort order, deselect this option.