This script is part of the Indexes and Concordances collection. See the full collection here. For more information about working with indexes and concordances in InDesign, see here.
Cross-references are printed in the order in which they were added to the document. If you add to a topic a cross-reference to the topic Python, and later, at the same topic, create a cross-reference to the topic JavaScript, you end up with See also Python; See also JavaScript. This can be fixed with a script.
This script is useful only in single-document texts, and it just sorts a topic’s cross-references. For books and additional cross-reference handling, see the next section.
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This article was last modified on September 10, 2026
This article was first published on September 10, 2026
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