Exporting text.doc from an InDesign file

Hello,
I have about 400 pages, each with one textframe that is linked throughout all 400 pages. Each page also has a separate 'header' textframe that isn't linked. I need to export just the text from both of these textframes, but the headers need to somehow be "inserted" between each linked textframe on each page.
I can easily copy/paste the entire linked textframe, it's getting the headers in there too that is the issue. Make sense?

Hi,
I think this is a good job for a script.
I.e. like this:
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
myTextArr = new Array();
var myTextStory = currHead = currText = "";
for (k=0; k<myDoc.pages.length;k++) {
 currHead = currText = "";
 for (f = 0; f<myDoc.pages[k].textFrames.length; f++)
 switch (isLinked( myDoc.pages[k].textFrames[f] ) ) {
 case true: {currText = myDoc.pages[k].textFrames[f].contents; break;}
 case false: {currHead = myDoc.pages[k].textFrames[f].contents; break;}
 default: {currHead = currText = ""; break;}
 if(currHead!=="") myTextArr.push(currHead);
 if(currText!=="") myTextArr.push(currText);
myTextStory = myTextArr.join("\r");
myFolder = "~/Desktop" // You can edit this
ExportFile = new File(myFolder + "/" + "InDesign_Export.txt"); // You can edit this
ExportFile.open("w",undefined, undefined);
ExportFile.write(myTextStory);
ExportFile.close();
function isLinked(myTF){
 if(!myTF.isValid) return -1;
 if(myTF.startTextFrame == myTF.endTextFrame) return false;
 else return true;
It should be saved as .jsx file and placed in your Script Panel folder.
To run - double click in InDesign script panel.
hope...

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