Exporting all text

[rennywong.com]

I just imported a file that was originally created in Quark Express into Indesign.

I want to export all the text in the document to a external source (ie MS Word, Notepad, etc...)

How would I do that?

Each time I try to export some text it would only export the text from the page that my cursor is on.

[mmarkham]

rennywong,

Have you linked all the text boxes that you want to copy from? Once they are linked, you should be able to Select All and copy the Text. I don't know if someone knows an easier way to do it that that.


Hope that helps.
mmarkham

[GuyB]

There is a script on the Adobe Studion exchange site called Export4SpellCheck.
I just tried it and it makes what you want, and it worked well. There might be other script on this site, you can browse to see.

[mr.Guy]

If you open the text in the story editor (cursor in the text and then Edit:Edit in Story Editor [or Cmd/Ctrl-Y]), you can export it to RTF or other format (File:Export...). You do have to ensure that all the story's text boxes are linked after the import in order to keep all the text together.

Guy