Index Help!

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    • #68028

      Hi! Hoping someone can help me!
      I have created a book with 14 separate documents to make a manual. I have numbered the pages for each document as demonstrated below:
      1.1, 1.2, and so on for document 1
      2.1, 2.2, and so one for document 2

      My index I generate however, will only show up as shown below:
      BAG FEES …..13
      BANK DEPOSITS …..3–4
      (It will duplicate numbers and not add the 1._ prefix I have reflected in the Pages Panel.
      Can anyone please help??

    • #68029
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      How did you do the 1. prefix part? Did you use the Prefix feature in the Section and Page Numbering Options dialog box?

    • #68030

      Yes I went to the pages panel on each document and changed the prefix in the Numbering & Section Options.

    • #68031
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      That is very strange, then. Can you explain what you mean by “it will duplicate numbers” (I don’t see duplicate numbers in your example)

    • #68032

      On my Pages Panel it should the page numbers as I changed them (1.1,1.2,2.1, etc.)
      On my Book Panel it should them as (Document1 1-7, Document2 1-42) the prefix does not show up
      So on my Index is will list page 1.2 and 2.2 just as “2” so something from document 1 and document 2 appear as if they are on the same page.
      Does that make sense?

    • #68039
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I’m not sure what could be going wrong. I just wrote up how I do this, as I’m sure other people find this confusing, too:
      https://creativepro.com/adding-prefixes-page-numbers-indesign.php

      Is the solution in there somewhere? If not, I supposed there’s a possibility that one or more of your documents have become corrupted, or other weirdness might have gotten into the system.

    • #68041

      I did figure it out thank you! There was a break and some pages numbers were not linked to the master, they were standing alone…so I fixed that.
      Do you know how to have the index look like this flush on the right side of the text box?
      index entry……….1.1
      policies………….1.2

    • #68042
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I like using the right indent tab: Type > Insert Special Character > Other > Right Indent Tab. I’ll write that up in another blog post soon. :)

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