Is there an easy way to see how many rows in a table? (selected or unselected)

Question

Hi all,
Forgive me if this is a REALLY dumb question but I would love to know if there there is an easy way to to see how many rows there are in a table in InDesign?
(And I bet I am really going to kick myself when I hear the answer and how simple it probably is..lol !)
I am working on a huge catalog and am dealing with LOTS of tables...very long tables too at times. I am also doing a lot of copying and pasting back and forth between InDesign and Excel and it would REALLY help if I knew how many rows there are in a table without having to manually count them (TIRESOME!!).
Also, is there a way to see how many rows I have selected at any one time? It would be SO WONDERFUL if the info box could also provide this information.
Thank you SO MUCH in advance for your help:))
Christine
**UPDATE**
Oh boy I AM going to kick myself! Why only NOW that I wrote this question did I suddenly notice that the Table palette shows the number of rows and columns? lol.
Okay, then is there a way to see how many rows I have selected at any given time?

Answer 1

@Christine – try the following ExtendScript (JavaScript):
if(app.selection.length === 0
    || !app.selection[0].constructor.name === "Cell"
    || !app.selection[0].constructor.name === "Table"){
    exit(0);
var sel = app.selection[0];
if(sel.constructor.name === "Cell"){
    var tableRowLength = sel.parent.rows.everyItem().getElements().length;
if(sel.constructor.name === "Table"){
    alert("All "+sel.rows.everyItem().getElements().length+" rows selected in current table." );
    exit(0);
var numberOfRowsSelected = sel.rows.length;
var indexOfSelectedRows = sel.rows.everyItem().index;
var startRowSel = indexOfSelectedRows[0]+1;
var endRowSel = indexOfSelectedRows.length+indexOfSelectedRows[0];
alert(numberOfRowsSelected +" row(s) selected.\r"+startRowSel+" to "+endRowSel+" out of "+tableRowLength+" of current table.");
You need not select whole rows, just one or a couple of cells.
Then run the script.
An alert message is telling you how many rows belong to the cell range you have selected and:
which rows of the table are selected…
A typical message would be:
6 row(s) selected.
3 to 8 out of 20 of current table.
The script does some basic checks of the selection.
If no cell or table is selected, it will just do nothing…
Uwe
Message was edited by: Laubender | Some language cosmetics in the alert message