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A Free Script to Invert Selections

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Ever wish you could quickly invert a selection like you can in Illustrator or Photoshop?

It’s a feature that comes in very handy sometimes when it’s easier to grab the thing you don’t want, then select the opposite. But InDesign has no built-in Select Inverse feature. But there is a free script you can grab and install that will do the trick. It’s by Luis Felipe Corullón, and you should check out his website for lots more cool scripts (some are free, some are paid).

Before running the script

After running the script

Once you have installed the script, assign a keyboard shortcut so inverting selections is just as easy in InDesign as it is in the other Adobe apps.

Thanks, Luis!

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French.
  • Amanda says:

    That’s actually a really handy tip. Thanks!

  • Luis Felipe Corullon says:

    Gratitude, dear Mike.

  • This is an aside, but it needs to go somewhere since others may be in my situation. For me, InDesign and Bridge are refusing to update. Even the “Get help” link on the “There was a problem updating InDesign” didn’t work. I did find the error code for the problem, C301. That led me to these links.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/failed-install-creative-cloud-desktop.html

    https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html#topic-2

    The fix is a horror of horrors, essentially uninstalling and reinstalling everything Adobe and seeing all my preferences trashed. I’m not even sure that will work. When I needed to reinstall Photoshop CS-3 after a disk crash, Adobe gave me a similarly long process. I repeated it over and over again, and it wasn’t even close to workable. Two of the steps simply refused to work.

    This ticks me off. For what I am paying Adobe each month, I expect more quality control than this and I shouldn’t be stuck with hours of work fixing their troubles. I suspect that, like Boeing with its 737MAX horrors. Adobe has become too focused on profits at the expense of quality.

    InDesign Secrets might want to look into this problem and see if the fix works. I’m not certain I want to spend all that time to discover that it still hasn’t fixed this issue. Presently ID is working and I’ve got two books I’ll soon need to be laying out. I can’t afford to destroy ID.

    • I wonder if my inability to download ID and Bridge CC updates (described above) has something to do with this IDS article, posted just after my remarks.

      https://creativepro.com/adobe-removes-older-versions-of-apps-from-creative-cloud.php#respond

      Not being able to get older versions does suggest major changes to CC that might have also muddled up downloading updates. At any rate, I managed to get around the troubles above by restarting my Mac. Doing that may have grabbed the CC tweak that the CC app was insisting on under the pretext of updating ID, and I can do without Bridge. That’ll let me layout those two pending books.

      So if CC is hassling you about being unable to download updates, try a restart. It may help. It might avoid having to remove and reinstall everything.

      • Terry Veiga says:

        Thanks for posting this Michael and glad you’re finally up and running again.

  • Nivannii Rose says:

    I clicked on both links – get the script and go to the website and both said they are unavailable. Is there a way to get them?

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