: Add text to InDesign with script? We have about 500 1 page InDesign files which each need a bit of text added to them in the format: Completion Year xxxx The text needs to be right

@Sims5801359

Thats already a lot you want there. Did you do any prior research or tests?
Anyway I think this is what you want.
It reads a textfile you select. Add your content to each line. Use a paragraph style to set behaviour like alignment and fonts.

var main = function() {
// check for active document
if (app.documents.length < 1) {
// no doc
return;
} else {
// sleect the file
var file = File.openDialog("Select a textfile", "*.*", false);
if (file === null) {
// aborted by user
return;
}
// read in the file line per line
var lines = [];
file.open('r');
while (!file.eof) {
lines[lines.length] = file.readln();
}
file.close(); // always close files

var doc = app.activeDocument;
// set the origin to the page
var curr_origin = doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin;
doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.PAGE_ORIGIN;

// the locations for the textframe
var y1 = 0;
var x1 = 0;
var y2 = 100;
var x2 = 100;

// loop all pages
for (var i = 0; i < doc.pages.length; i++) {
var page = doc.pages[i];
// get the content
var content = "not enough lines";
if (lines.length > i) {
// we still have lines in the file
content = lines[i];
}
// create the textframe
var tf = page.textFrames.add({
contents: content,
geometricBounds: [y1, x1, y2, x2]
});
// apply a style by name
// tf.paragraphs[0].appliedParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyles.item("myStyle");
}
doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = curr_origin;

}

};
main();

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