Reply To: CS4: The dreaded Index …

Colly, no need to despair (yet). It seems the buggy Index is strongly linked to the Book function — InDesign “just” forgets to update the index per each file, it seems. I read on another forum it should be possible to manually update the index in each file, to force all index entries to be current when the Index Book function gets activated.

I don't have my 50 MB/53 files with me — it's a weekend! — but I'll try that for sure. Shame about the work day I spend writing scripts … Perhaps I can send Adobe a bill for the hours spend debugging.

The Javascript Help lists “update” under “Index”, but with this rather puzzling note:

Updates the index preview pane. Note: Does not update the index.

— so it might be scriptable to semi-automatically update all, or it might not.