Reply To: Changing the format of an Index

You could do a regular search for ^a, and apply the No Break style to it. That code is “any anchored object followed by a comma”

As for Gert’s grep code above: Wow, I completely forgot that grep find/change would do that. How annoying! It’s like it dissociates the styling with the text. Weird! That is probably why in the SortParagraphs.jsx script, there is a way to do it with or without paying attention to the formatting.

Personally, I think the trick of breaking it into a table and manipulating it in Excel is a pretty good one. Pariah S. Burke wrote an article about doing something like that in InDesign Magazine a while back… must have been in 2008, because I referenced it in this post: https://creativepro.com/alphabetize-data-in-tables.php