Is it possible to sort textframes in alphabetical order?

Question

Hi,
I have a large number of separate text frames with text startsing with a number.
Is it possible to sort the text frames i alphabetical / numeric order either in y or z?
Scripts available that I've found sort paragraphs, but since my text frames contains several paragraphs that's not an option.
InDesign CS5, MacOS X.
So, help much appreciated.
/K

Answer 1

That took me a few minutes
Sorting 'on contents' is easy, but then the text order inside the frames as set would be correct, but not the order of the frames themselves. The top frame on your screen may not be "the first one" according to the order of creation.
So you also have to re-sort the text frame location, top to bottom and left to right. I do this by first sorting the frames into the correct location, so the "first" frame is actually the first one on the page, then the next one etc.
Then I sort the contents on the first word and move the frames around into their sorted order.
I do this quick 'n dirty: by moving their geometric bounds around. Thus it's possible I place a large text into a small 'original' frame (actually I don't move the text around) and it might get overset. But this way nothing else on the screen changes.
If you want the frames aligned and spaced out as in your "below" image, you could do that before running my script.
Is this what you were looking for?
list = app.selection;
org_order = [];
for (i=0; i<list.length; i++)
org_order[i] = list[i].geometricBounds;
org_order.sort (function(a,b) {
if (a[0] == b[0]) return a[1] - b[1];
return a[0] - b[0];
list.sort ( function(a, b) {
return parseInt(a.texts[0].words[0].contents) - parseInt(b.texts[0].words[0].contents);
for (i=0; i<org_order.length; i++)
list[i].geometricBounds = org_order[i];