Index Statistics
The script displays a simple window showing the number of topics used in the active document together with the number of subtopics and the number of unused topics. It also...
This script is part of the Indexes and Concordances collection. See the full collection here.
The script does some number crunching on the document’s index and shows the results as follows:
To view the unused topics, click OK. They’re printed to a text file named UnusedTopics.txt which is placed on your desktop. The file is opened in your OS’s default text editor.
Note: The script deals only with InDesign’s index, reading all the information from the Index panel, not from a generated index. It’s therefore not necessary to generate the index before collecting the statistics.
Version history
10 Feb. 2019: Unused topics weren’t counted correctly; fixed.
31 Jan. 2015: posted.
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