Index formatting options – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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Long document features
Last updated 11/16/2011
1 Do one of the following:
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If you’re creating an index for a single document, you may want to add a new page at the end of the document.
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If you’re creating an index for multiple documents in a book, create or open the document to be used for the index,
and make sure that it’s included in the book.
2 Choose Generate Index in the Index panel menu. Specify settings for the following options:
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For Title, type the text that will appear at the top of the index. To determine how the title is formatted, select a style
in the Title Style pop-up menu.
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Select Replace Existing Index to update an existing index. This option is dimmed if you haven’t generated an index.
Deselecting this options lets you create multiple indexes.
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Select Include Book Documents to create a single index for all documents in the current book list and to renumber
the book’s pages. Deselect this option if you want to generate an index for the current document only.
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Select Include Entries On Hidden Layers if you want index markers on hidden layers to be included in your index.
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To view additional index options, click More Options.
3 Click OK. If Replace Existing Index is deselected, a loaded text icon appears. Place the index story as you would any
other text.
If you edit entries in the index story, these changes are overridden when you regenerate the index. For best results, edit
the index in the Index panel, and then generate the index again.
More Help topics
Index formatting options
When you click More Options in the Generate Index dialog box, formatting options appear that let you determine the
style and appearance of the generated index. InDesign includes a number of built-in paragraph and character styles
that you can select to format the generated index, or you can create and select your own styles. After you generate the
index, you can edit these styles in the Paragraph Styles and Character Styles panels.
Index with nested entries
A. Title B. Section heading C. Level 1 entry D. Level 2 subentry E. Topic F. Cross-reference
To replace the entry separators (such as the values for Following Topic or Between Entries), select the existing
separator and then type or choose a replacement character.
Nested or Run-in
Select Nested if you want the index formatted in the default style, with subentries nested under an
entry as separate indented paragraphs. Select Run-in if you want all levels of an entry to appear in a single paragraph.
The Between Entries option determines which character separates the entries.
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