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Several people (on various mailing lists) have asked for a script that makes InDesign work like PageMaker does when you cut/paste a text frame. In InDesign, when you delete a text frame, the text flows into other frames in the story; in PageMaker, the text is deleted with the frame.

Here's a simple AppleScript that removes the selected frame or frames from the story.



--RemoveFrameFromStory.scpt 
-- This InDesign 2.x script removes the selected text frame  
-- and the text it contains from its parent story. The frame  
-- and its content will appear in the same position as it  
-- originally occupied--it just won't be threaded to the story  
-- anymore. This is similar to deleting and then power pasting  
-- a text block in PageMaker. You can select multiple text frames.  
tell application "InDesign 2.0.1" 
	set mySelection to selection 
	if (count mySelection) is not equal to 0 then 
		repeat with myCounter from (count mySelection) to 1 by -1 
			if class of item myCounter of mySelection is text frame then 
				set myTextFrame to item myCounter of mySelection 
				tell myTextFrame 
					duplicate 
					delete characters 1 through -1 of myTextFrame 
					delete 
				end tell 
			end if 
		end repeat 
	end if 
end tell 




Thanks,

Ole