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• • April 25, 2016 at 10:17 am #84263
    Kris Jensen-Van Heste

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    I probably didn’t need to buy this, but I did.

    I have a membership directory and need to index each section simply by member name.

    I set it up with paragraph styles and just want to index every member’s name, all of which are in one particular paragraph style. When I tried that, I got single words.

    It’s probably simple for someone who’s used this before, but my head is swimming.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    example of the listings:

    Baldwin Filters
    Mr. Sam Ferrise
    President
    4400 E Highway 30
    Kearney, NE 68848-6010
    (p): (800) 822-5394
    (f): (800) 828-4453
    http://www.baldwinfilters.com

    Faster Inc.
    Mr. Chad Phillips
    VP – Sales & Marketing
    6560 Weatherfield Court
    Maumee, OH 43537
    (p): (800) 231-2501
    (f): (888) 316-2695
    http://www.fasterinc.com

    Stucchi USA, Inc.
    Mr. Scott Rolston
    Sales
    1107 Windham Pkwy
    Romeoville, IL 60446
    (p): (847) 956-9720
    (f): (847) 956-9723
    http://www.stucchiusa.com

  • April 25, 2016 at 10:29 am #84264
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Kris, I’m not sure… you might need to contact the folks at Indiscripts directly. Or you may need to apply a character style to the names? (I don’t recall how it works with paragraph styles.)

    I’m hoping those names and phone numbers in your example above are fake. If not, let me know and I will edit them for privacy reasons.

  • April 25, 2016 at 10:47 am #84265
    Kris Jensen-Van Heste

    Member

    Omigosh. I feel like I just heard from a rock star. :D

    I’m probably overstating/overthinking.

    I have 130-ish pages of a directory of companies (company name, address, phone, web, etc.)

    I need to compile the company names in an alphabetic index (with the page reference) so I end up with

    Acme Anvils 21
    Boris Belts 56
    Charlie Canvas 8

    and so on.

    Can you/anyone point me to the simplest, cleanest way to accomplish that? I did buy IndexMatic but also have Index Brutal available.

    (And David, these are construction supply businesses, so no need to edit, but thank you.) (I’m still all, David-honest-to-goodness-Blatner!!)

  • April 25, 2016 at 11:00 am #84266
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Aw shucks, thanks, Kris! Glad to be of help.

    I’m thinking that perhaps the Layout > Table of Contents feature might actually work better for you, if you already have paragraph styles applied to each company. You can turn on the Alphabetical checkbox to have the TOC show up in alphabetical order instead of chronological.

  • April 25, 2016 at 11:05 am #84267
    Kris Jensen-Van Heste

    Member

    This is what happens when you spend 25 years in newsrooms and then jump to magazines: Overthinkins R Me.

    Don’t tell anyone.

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