This is a problem I see come up sporadically, and I've run into it a few times myself. I now know how to structure my work efforts to minimize the problem, and this helps, but find from time to time that it would be very helpful to have a particular plug-in.

The problem this plug in addresses is the fact that it is possible in direct editing of the text box attributes to enter values which seem to make a page-attached text block disappear. To see what I mean by this, create a new document, go to page view, and near the top of the page, create a text block containing the text, well, "text block test" will do. Now, without closing the text block, go to the "frame attributes" dialog box, and set the horizontal co-ordinate to "-19.", and the vertical attribute to "19." Upon closing the window, you will discover that this text block seems to have disappeared.

The fact is, it really hasn't disappeared, there is just no way to access it to change the attributes back, though in some cases there is. If you try the test above, and use as "+19." as your horizontal co-ordinate instead of "-19", and scale the page view to 10 percent, then the block appears far off to the right, about 10 inches off the paper.

So what I'm asking for is a plug in that would allow one to "step through" all of the assigned text blocks, opening their "edit attributes" dialog in succession, so that one could to directly edit the attributes even though one could not access the handle of a specific text block.

ns
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