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Hello.
I have 100 2-page InDesign documents. I would like to place page #2 of all 100 documents into a new document. I'm placing these documents into InDesign at once (via the ability to place multiple documents), but when I choose "Show Import Options" to select page #2 of the documents, I have to do this one-by-one for each of the 100 documents. Is there a way to apply the import options to all 100 documents, or do I have to do this manually, one at a time?
I had hoped that if I set the import options for the first file, then deselected import options for the remaining 99 documents (doing a multiple document import), my original import options would stick, but they don't.
So, hoping someone might know of a better way of doing this rather than having to set the import options for each of the 100 documents I'm importing.
Thanks,
Kristin.

Scott Zanelli's MultiPageImporter (sth like that ) is rumoured to be able to do this. (Read the Comments section.)

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