Comments on: Save All Open Documents

By: Mayfly Design

Mayfly Design — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:00:13 +0000

Awesome tips! Many thanks all

By: Jason Adam

Jason Adam — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:38:29 +0000

Bah. It doesn’t work, of course, because Command-Alt-Shift-P is package. Never mind me.

*slinks away*

By: Jason Adam

Jason Adam — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:35:37 +0000

Ugh… Edit > Print all open DOCUMENTS. This is an InDesign site after all.

(I’m just hoping the keystrokes will be the same in PS.)

By: Jason Adam

Jason Adam — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:33:39 +0000

Similar question… Is there any way to PRINT all open images?

I want to do this when I’m making Contact Sheets using PS Automation. Sometimes it’ll create 8-10 contact sheets, which I don’t even need to save at all. Just print and Command W. Except I’m tired of doing that.

I think I’ll try this with P instead of S.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:17:55 +0000

This is great tip that will save me couple of minutes at least once a month when I open and change month number in a book with over 40 documents.
Untill today I used what Fritz suggested and now I found another half of David’s tip – CLOSE ALL, so I and Fritz can completely forget the old Ctrl-Q way.

By: Lukas834

Lukas834 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:14:54 +0000

Note, that InDesign has also “CloseAll” feature, that closes all open files. This feature is also hidden under shortcut (Command-Option-Shift-W / Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W), and I use both of them (SaveAll & CloseAll) a lot, while I work simultanously on dozen-or-so of files.

By: Lauren K.

Lauren K. — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:04:03 +0000

I will definitely use this now, as I run into sort of the same deal. I used to just tab through my documents using Command ~ then Command-S to scroll through and save all my open docs.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:30:08 +0000

David, it’s very odd that it isn’t in the file menu. Perhaps in the next Update for InDesign they can include that in the menu list. I’ve already submitted this to Adobe on their Wishlist page

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:57:59 +0000

Brian, I was just teasing Fritz a little (Sorry Fritz! But I love your screen shot idea.)

I can see the value in the quit method when there is no built-in feature. But the point of my post is that InDesign does have a built-in method (but only with a keyboard shortcut).

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:46:58 +0000

When all documents are open you can force crash indesign, when you reopen InDesign it will re-open all the files, with the data saved… I’ll get my coat.