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• • May 21, 2010 at 10:47 am #55806
    Sarah H

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    I want to select an index tag in the text and then see what that entry is. I am selecting the index tag hidden character but it doesn't highlight the entry in any way in the index panel. Am I missing something obvious? I can select it in the index panel and then go to it in the text, but I want to do it the other way around. Help?

    I'm in CS4 if that makes a difference.

  • May 21, 2010 at 1:04 pm #55808
    Theunis De Jong

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    What you describe works just fine for me … If I select one single Index marker (using shift-arrows and a little try-and-error, or the Story Editor), the selected entry in the Index panel will be the reference to that marker.

    Perhaps you could try exporting the document to IDML and re-opening that — it might clear some gunk from the corners of your file.

  • May 21, 2010 at 2:08 pm #55811
    Sarah H

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    Thanks Jongware. I thought it should work that way! Unfortunately, this is a 600+ page book with 30 chapters, so it's too many files to un-gunk. I'll get there. Pulling chapters from different books with different indexing approaches (some second levels, some only first), circular cross-references, duplicate entries with varying capitalization…fun, fun!

  • May 21, 2010 at 2:18 pm #55812
    Theunis De Jong

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    CS4 — ouch! Did you read my post CS4: The dreaded index …? That was on a just slightly larger document (and, from the complaints I have read on Adobe's Indesign Forum, I think index troubles are not even related to document size).

    To get my index up and running, I had to write lots of custom scripts, so at least I now know how to gather all entries into a file, for example.

    The tour de farce (so to speak) I mention at the end — a fully custom script that gathers index entries and their page numbers by itself, sorted & all — worked for me and my index; but that was only an easy one, relatively speaking, consisting only of single-level entries. It won't work for you without some serious re-writing, I'm afraid.

    (I also don't feel like picking up the slack where Adobe fails to get it right! It's their job, and they ought to do something about it, what with us being paying clients suffering under some serious bugs that virtually makes the index function useless.)

    (I'm fuming — sorry, I know.)

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