Re: Exporting each articles button names to an Excel Spread Sheet or other form

You could run a simple script like this:

#target indesign

// Carlsen

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var buttonNames = doc.buttons.everyItem().name;

var buttonNameArray = [];

for (var b = 0; b < buttonNames.length; b++) {

          buttonNameArray[b] = buttonNames[b];

}

buttonNameArray.sort();

var f = File("~/Desktop/ButtonList.csv");

f.open('w');

f.encoding = 'UTF-8';

var l = buttonNameArray.length;

for (var i = 0; i < l; i++) {

          f.writeln(buttonNameArray[i]);

}

f.close();

which just writes a list of names to a text file. If we use the extension ".csv", Excel can Open it and put all the names in the first column of the new spreadsheet.