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Article #9209(JS) Use spreadsheet to rename a bunch of documents?
From: Lisa_Spike
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:26
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:26
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Before I go trying to figure out HOW, I figure I'd come here to see if what I'd like to do is even possible. We are going to have many, many InDesign documents that are individual pages of a catalog. The documents will be named their page number (such as "425.indd"). However, at the end of the production cycle, page numbers will change as a result of inserting new pages. I can handle the page numbering itself by using books. But the document names will then not match the page number. Can I use a script to batch rename documents? If I have an Excel spreadsheet that contained the existing document name and the new document name, can the script call on that spreadsheet and do the "save as" for me? (I would also have to figure out how to NOT overwrite an existing document with the same name.) Any ideas?
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