Our LayerLifter freebie is a simple plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS5, CS4, CS3, CS2 or CS which offers an alternate method for moving page items between layers, instead of using the InDesign Layers palette.
With LayerLifter, the names of the document layers appear in the context menu of any selected page item. You can move a page item between layers by right-clicking and selecting a layer name from the context menu.
It also has an optional feature to nudge all items on a layer throughout the whole document, or across the current spread – only users that have a license for APID ToolAssistant installed have access to this optional feature.
Download links and more info about LayerLifter can be found here:
https://www.rorohiko.com/layerlifter
To see a little bit more about this nudge feature, check this out – it’s a little article that explains how to nudge a whole collection of frames in one swoop:
https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/2009/10/29/how-to-nudge-and-shift-a-whole-layer/