InDesign© Plugins

What is Formatting Tools?

Formatting Tools is a growing collection of functions designed to aid in formatting text quickly and efficiently.

Currently Formatting Tools includes the following functions:

• Conditional Paragraph Style Changer: This utility changes the paragraph style if there is a specific character in the first user-definable number of words. Additionally, the first words can optionally have a charcter style applied. For example: any paragraph which has a period (full stop) in the first two words can have an alternate style applied. One very useful application, is in conjunction with Drop Words. Very often, if a paragraph starts with a paragraph number, the number of drop words must be set to two instead of one. Conditional Style Changer can identify these paragraphs and change the paragraph style so Drop Words can apply the drop to the correct number of words.

• Style Between Delimiters: This utility applies a character style to text between two user-defined delimiters. The length of the text can be limited by both minimum and maximum values. For example: all text surrounded by parenthesis which is less than 20 characters can have a subscript style applied.

• Create One and Two Line Styles: This utility changes paragraph styles based on the number of lines the paragraph takes up. This is especially useful for quickly applying styles to header paragraphs.

• Consecutive Styles: Consecutive Styles is a utility which applies styles to consecutive paragraphs of specific styles.
It can be used in a number of different situations. It can be used to change the style of any paragraph of a particular style followed by a paragraph followed by a specific other style.
It can be used to change the style of a paragraph preceded by a specific style.
It can also be used to change the styling of a number of identically styled paragraphs, by either changing the first one or the last one.

We hope to add more utilities in the near future. If there is a formatting utility that you would like to see added to this collection, please contact us at wishlist@in-tools.com. Registered users are eligible for free upgrades as new functions are added.