In textual books there now can be hundreds of web addresses used within the text and references. There is a major problem with them in the fact that in justified text they can cause:
(a) widely spaced lines
(b) InDesign can insert discretionary hyphens to try to split the address to make the word spacing better (which means that when printed the web address would be wrong for the reader as it has hyphens that shouldn't be there).

The only workaround at the moment for this is to remove the discretionary hyphens by either hitting a return in its place, or inserting the Discretionary Break character to help InDesign find places to break the web address.

      These, however, are not work arounds because the Break character or return means that in a PDF the link will not work as it sees these characters even if the reader doesn't. Even if you use the Hyperlink Panel in InDesign you would have to remove any discretionary hyphens or break characters from within the Hyperlink panel window for it to work.

All this is extremely time-consuming.

SOLUTIONS
(1) New Website Character Style. If InDesign could have a special character style for web addresses so that when applied it would mean that no discretionary hyphens can appear, but the web address can split on any character.
(2) New Website Break Character. If InDesign could have a break character for web addresses that is not seen by Acrobat or the Hyperlink Panel in InDesign so that you can split websites wherever you want without them losing their link in PDFs.
(3) When a web address is very long and goes over several lines, it means that there will be lines with no word spaces. InDesign does not know what do and it will leave the lines short. If the Web Address Character Style could also feature a way of making the lines go to the full text measure but without too much letter spacing or scaling would be a big aid too.

If the above solutions were made there would be no more problems in InDesign with web addresses. Remember that web addresses are being used more and more in books and interactive PDFs and this problem is only going to get bigger and bigger.

Please could you find a solution if you don't like mine!

This would be a major improvement of tables in InDesign that would be the envy of any other program and I think it is possible for InDesign to do it.

       This feature would automatically make a table go to its text box width with even spacing between each column of text.:

       This is how it would be done with a new feature called something like 'Column Space':

(1) You would make sure the table is within a text box to the width you want the table to go to.
(2) You would then adjust the columns of text within the table to the widths you want them (as you normally would) but without using any cell indents to the left or right of each text column. (So the text column is exactly to the width of the longest line you have decided on in each column.)
(3) Between each column of text you would add this new feature column, which I've called 'Column Space'*, and this would put even spacing between each text column and this would space the table out to the text box width.

*This 'Column Space' would act like a word space in justified text, i.e. by adding a Column Space between each column of the table these special columns would behave like a word space – the columns of text would be spaced out evenly to the text box width (just as words are in justified text).

This would resolve the fiddly, trial and error issue of having to adjust table column widths to make the table go to the width you want it. This would automatically sort out the spacing between table columns automatically and accurately.

If, like me, you are working on a book with that might have 75 large tables within it, this would be a huge time saver.

At the moment for dictionary-type work, using text variables for running heads gives you the option of showing the first word on the page on left-hand page running heads, and the last word on the page right-hand pages. BUT where the feature lacks is if the left-hand page starts half-way through a paragraph. For example, if the last dictionary word on the right-hand page is 'peanut' but the paragraph goes over to the next left-hand page, you want it to show 'peanut' at the top of this left-hand page as it is a continuation from the previous page, but you can only have the first word on the page which might be 'pebble'. So 'pebble' running head will display on the left-hand page when really it should be 'peanut' as that is paragraph that is really at the top of the page.

I use INDD for proposals that include covers and tabs. Right now, it's pretty cumbersome to get the cover and tabs to not be included in the page count. Currently, you have to restart the number at a specific interval based on where the tabs are at and change your cover and tabs pages to include a Section Prefix as to not duplicate page numbers, so it's a little tedious. So my first three pages are called A1 A2 and A3...then 1 2...then B3 (for tab 1)...then 3 4 5 etc. Can we just have a "check box" under Numbering & Section Options that says "don't include in page count"? That would be amazing!

Would like the find/replace font also store/show the actual filename for the font, not just the display version: I have recently received a new (Windows) computer at work, it has has some issues, and I didn't copy over all of the installed fonts on the previous computer, as I probably did not need many of them anymore. I work for a printing company that does updates and new set ups, so use a lot of fonts from a lot of sources. It is a real time user to find the correct font file for many jobs, given Windows' naming conventions for fonts. If InDesign, and other apps that set type, could store the actual filename of the fonts used in the file, as well as it's display name, then finding the font would be more certain and quick. Currently the filename only shows up if the font is already installed.

Footnotes can be set to renumber every SECTION. This is OK, but could be improved (see below).
However, endnotes can only be set to renumber every STORY. This is a most undesirable limitation, because it requires breaking text threads in order to create new stories. This is destructive design—to limit potential problems it is necessary to wait until layout is completed before breaking threads. Even then, problems can still occur.
This problem could easily be fixed by allowing endnotes to be renumbered the same ways as footnotes can be—every section.
Of course, renumbering every section also has a significant limitation—it is assigned at page level instead of text level, meaning that if text flow changes after sections are set—say, new content added to an early section—they will need to be reset in order to match the new flow.
A much better way would be to allow section start to be set as part of a PARAGRAPH STYLE. This way, the endnote or footnote numbering would automatically alter as changes take place.
Since this method is already used in the BreakTextThread script, it would surely be easily adopted.
The attached file gives a more detailed explanation.

Please please please consider making a feature where you can extract pages/spreads in an InDesign document as a separate InDesign file. I work in Proposals for a Civil Engineering firm and our proposals are generally 100+ pages with a lot of resumes and project pages. After each proposal is complete we have to go in and save every resume in each person's resume folder and every project page in its respective folder. It takes such a long time to create a new indesign document for each resume and project and copy/paste it over and then save in a folder. It would be so nice to select the pages you want, right click, and be able to save the selected pages as an indesign file into a folder. PLEASE!! Thank you :)

Hi i have an indesign document and just finished working on it. And i realized that language setting on this document is Turkish. I want to change language all texts in this document to english but I cannot do this all at once. I have to select all the texts one by one and manually to change the language setting. How can I change the language setting of all texts in the document to US english at once? Answer: There is no way at the moment :(

I can click on the text box, select the whole text with ctrl a, and change the language setting from the language section on the top toolbar. But there is not only 1 text box in the document, there are many. It would be great if I could change the language setting in all text boxes in one go.

This feature is important for me because text hyphenation doesnt work good if language is not correct.