I just completed (with a colleague) a 100-page plus book of old photos and essays. The photos appear on the left-hand page and the descriptive essays on the right. All copy was formatted in InCopy and those files were places page by page by page.
At some point we realized we would need an index and so I tried to do one. It would not work. I could not get a highlighted phrase to show in the index box and while there was an Add box, there was not an Add All.
This afternoon I met with my InDesign instructor at our local community college. After fussing around for about 10 minutes, she solved the problem. All of the Incopy files needed to be embedded in the InDesign file. I just finished doing that and created an index.
But what troubles me is that I've lost those links to InCopy. In fact, the InCopy files no longer appear in the Links panel. That means, as most know, that when I make a change in an essay in InDesign, there will be no backward link and change to the InCopy file.
I would prefer doing this another way for my next book, given that I really do lean on InCopy instead of Word. Does anyone now how I can have my cake and eat it, too–keep the upgradeable links but still run the index as it's supposed to be run?
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