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Here is a simple visual basic script for finding oversets. It first tells you how many textframes there are in your document and then searches through your textframes checking for an overset value and if true, takes note of the page the overset is on and moves on to the next textframe. When finished, it displays all the pages that oversets were found on. If there is more than one overset on a page it lists that page multiple times. I have had over 1700 textframes in one 100 page document. The script assumes you have an open document with textframes.

Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.CS2")
Set myDocument = myInDesign.ActiveDocument

myErrors = ""

msgbox "This document contains " & myDocument.TextFrames.Count & " text frames."

For i = 1 To myDocument.TextFrames.Count
	If myDocument.TextFrames.Item(i).OverFlows Then
		MyErrors = MyErrors & "Overset on page " & myDocument.TextFrames.Item(i).Parent & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
	End If
next

If MyErrors = "" Then
	MsgBox "No Oversets Detected"
Else
	Msgbox MyErrors
End If