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JPannier, auto-generated TOCs and Indexes are ignored when you export to EPUB. I showed in my Lynda.com title that meanwhile refers to how you can export an auto-generated TOC to RTF format, then import that into the ID file, which forces its inclusion in the EPUB. You could do the same thing with an index, I suspect.

However you're going to have a problem with links. The (linked) page numbers don't apply to an EPUB, since it's reflowable… there is no concept of page numbers. (Except, just recently, with the Kindle format, when you need to refer to a page in the printed version of the book.) Honestly I'm not sure how people are dealing with indexes in their EPUBs. Maybe someone else can chime in, or you can post the question to a forum that's specializing in ebook creation, like https://mobileread.com/.

AM

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