Scripts you find useful

Just wanted to get maybe a few new free scripts and wondering if anyone is willing to share any links or code of cool scripts they have in their arsenal that just makes things easy for them.
Here's some of my favourties that I've accumulated over the years
Apply Clipping Path
For some reason clipping paths may or not be applied to your photohsop files. If you turn on or off the clipping path for one image, then select the rest of the images and run the script it will apply or unapply the clipping path!
Create Hex Swatches
Speaks for itself really
http://indesignsecrets.com/create-hexadecimal-color-swatches-in-indesign-for-interactive-d ocuments.php
Footnotes to Endnotes
Various reasons for doing this, mainly because indesign can't handle spanning footnotes across two columns!
But it's very handy and has a lot of uses!
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/foot_to_endnote.html
This script takes it one step further by creating the cross-reference, if you need that functionality
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/foot_add_delete.html
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Multipage Importer
Import and place multiple PDF pages or InDeisgn Pages directly into your indesign document!
http://indesignsecrets.com/zanelli-releases-multipageimporter-for-importing-both-pdf-and-i ndd-files.php
Preptext
There others mentioned in the link below. But Preptext is fantastic for taking in Word file that has no styles applied to it's text and it creates the bold, italic, bold italic, superscript, subscript or any other character formating into Character Styles!
It's really fantastic!
http://indesignsecrets.com/free-scripts-help-fix-word-formatting.php
Smart Title Case
You can edit the script easily enough and follow the format to add in your own conjunctions, or to add in your own intentional capital letters.
The link to download is on the left
http://jsid.blogspot.ie/2006/06/smart-title-case-revisited.html
Table Sort
Does what it says on the tin - it sorts a table, quite nifty!
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/tablesort.html
Data merge into a table
InDesigns Data Merge is quite powerful but it doesn't allow data merging into a table, say for a table plan of guests or something like that.
This resolves that issue
Follow the instructions carefully!
http://indesignsecrets.com/using-data-merge-to-create-a-table-for-a-directory.php
Replace Text
Have to replace your text with Lorem Ipsum for some reason? I requested this script and you follow the thread below
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/574682
Stylighter
Highlights styles within text - I find it handy for if you need multiple people to proof text - but there's bound to better uses than that!
http://indesignsecrets.com/style-highlighting.php
Batch Convert
This is Golden! You can select a folder of InDesign files and choose an output method, from IDML, to Package, to JPEG, to whatever else is mentioned in the conversion options.
Tips:
Set your JPEG export options by exporting a sample page first. As you don't get a dialog to choose what JPEG settings you want to choose, it uses the last JPEG setting you choose.
Setup a PDF export option so it's available to choose if you're batch exporting PDFs.
Run with no documents open to select a folder. Run with a lot of documents already open and it will use them.
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html
Finally!
PageExporterUtility
It basically lets you select what pages to export to a specific format - it's very handy and easy to use.
I use it mostly for RTFs as InDesigns RTF export is a bit dodgy.
(the Batch Convert above for RTFs of multiple files is just pure golden!
http://www.rrdonnelley.com/prepress/prepare/indesign/indesign-exporter-utility-script.aspx
That's it
Hope to hear from the rest of you guys on the scripts that make your life handier while using InDesign!

Good idea for a thread!
One script that I use regularly and is very useful is the late Teus de Jong's HyphenationChecker. This displays a complete list of all hyphenated words used in a document so that you can double-check them at a glance. Available here:
http://www.teusdejong.nl/thome/ho_body5.html#hyphen
I also must mention a couple of my own freebies, both of which I use regularly. I'll just copy the blurb from my site:
Quick Apply with Next Style
Have you always wished that the quick-apply feature would respect your paragraph style’s Next Style setting? Have you always wished that there would be an easy shortcut for Next Style? Well, now there is!
Case Cycle
This little script is a great timesaver. It simply cycles through three of InDesign’s capitlization options: All caps, lowercase, sentence case.
They can both be accessed from this page: http://www.freelancebookdesign.com/scripts

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