Comments on: Find Out What an Index Entry Is

By: david Frisco

david Frisco — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:29:13 +0000

I am trying to index school names that include a comma, such as “California State University, Los Angeles” unfortunately, InDesign separates the school name into two sub entries: “California State University” and “Los Angeles” Is there a way to keep the whole school name intact as one subentry?

My layout also requires the occasional soft-return within a long school name, and this also produces two index entries. can this be avoided? non-breaking spaces?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:49:03 +0000

Julie, I’m not sure what the problem could be. Just make sure the “Type” pop-up menu in the index entry dialog box is set properly. If the problem continues, there’s always the “rebuild preferences” trick.

By: Julie Riley

Julie Riley — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:19 +0000

I have generated an index for a cookbook, but the page references are not showing up correctly. They indicate the page number at the end of the Chapter document, not the actual page number of the recipe. Is there a setting I am mistaking?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:07:47 +0000

Claudio, you can create a range in the Page Reference Options dialog box. Set the Type pop-up menu to a range. However, it will not work unless your text story actually reaches that many pages. Jenn: You can see index markers on the documet page if you turn on Type > Show Hidden Characters. They look like a colon with a caret under it. See this post for a visual.

By: jenn

jenn — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:11:04 +0000

Is there a way to see index markers outside of the story editor?

By: Claudio M.

Claudio M. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:37:43 +0000

I want to create an Index with a range of page (i.e. 3-10). How can I create it?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:43:00 +0000

Thanks, Chris. Yes, I wasn't as clear in the title as I might have been. Shirley: An index entry is an invisible character in a text story that stores information that is later collected when you build an index in InDesign. There's loads more information about indexing elsewhere, including in my beyond the basics video title and in Real World InDesign Also, check out Michael Murphy's videocast on the subject.

By: Chris Ryland

Chris Ryland — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:17:30 +0000

Shirley, I think David meant to title this: How to find out what an index entry refers to.

By: Shirley Taylor

Shirley Taylor — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:59:09 +0000

This looks very helpful, but I still don’t know what an index entry is.

By: Fred Goldman

Fred Goldman — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:16:40 +0000

In CS2 you simply select the index marker and press Ctrl+U