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InDesign Secrets posted a videocast a few days ago highlighting the guide features in InDesign. It’s a great videocast to learn all the little things about guides most people don’t know!

We just thought it’s a great opportunity to post a useful little script we have lying around since January ’07. It pops up a little dialog which allows you to select guides on the current spread. Of course there’s the shortcut (Command/Control Option G) which will select all the guides on a spread, but this script also allows you to select just vertical or horizontal guides. You can get the script from here.

InDesign has a really nice shortcut for jumping to a specific page in a document: Control/Command J. Prior to CS3 it activated the page number input area at the bottom of the document window, but a lot of people missed that, so Adobe changed it to a dialog which pops up.

However, when working on book files, this command comes up a bit short. If you want to jump to a specific page which might be in a different file (which might not even be open), there’s no quick way to do it.

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