All right, so we have an active book file here I'm going to double-click on the script, which is how you run it, and you can see that it will work on All opened documents that you currently have open in InDesign so you didn't really have to close those documents, but I get confused when there's lots of documents open and it's creating a new document. You don't need to close the documents, but I like to keep things nice and clear. Nobody knew of any script until Michael said "I have a better version of a script," and I asked him if I could distribute it and show it in this video, and he said "Sure." So I already have it installed you're going to download it and install it from our website, and we have instructions about how to install scripts there in InDesign, and the script is called MergeFiles-2016.jsxbin and it works not just on book files, but also folders full of files. Now the script was written by a guy who's not a professional scripter just a nice gentleman named Michael Zaichenko who chimed in on a thread in one of our forums where somebody asked, did they have a huge folder with many files that they need to merge into one document. Go to Resources, Plug-ins and Scripts, and there will be a section here that I'm going to add called From Videos, and I will include the script here. First of all, you need to download the script and you can download it from. That's why I was so thrilled to hear about this script. But if you have a book with 20 or 30 chapters, that is a lot of work. Here we are looking at multiple chapters having to do with this small book, A Brief History of San Francisco, and I could open up the cover and front matter file, which is about five or six pages long and also the intro, which is also quite short and then I could drag these pages over here, or I could use the Move Pages command, and so on. It is of course possible to do so manually. You know, lots of other reasons: one, you might want to merge files together. Typically, you might want to run this on a book file that is made up of multiple chapters, because you want one long InDesign file that is the entire book but you might also have a collection of documents that you want to merge into one InDesign document. That's what I'm going to show you in this tip, and I will show you where you can download it from too it's a free script. There are a lot of scripts out there that will take a long document and split them into smaller documents but until now, there have been no scripts that will take multiple InDesign documents and merge them into one.
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