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• • August 15, 2013 at 8:21 am #64867
    Reno Bailey

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    What am I missing? I’ve indexed Chapter 1. Moving on to Chapter 2, I find the Topics and References did not follow. I imported the Topics from the Chapter 1 file, but it did not import any References. Should I proceed, and will all the References be combined at some point?

  • August 15, 2013 at 9:06 am #64872
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Indexing is hell, in my humble opinion. And indexing multiple documents in a book is just multiple iterations of hell.

    No, there is no way that I know of to see all the index topics (entries, titles, whatever you want to call them) and their numbers throughout a book at the same time. It’s horrible.

    The index file should be a separate file on disk, or saved inside the book panel or something, so that you can do a good job indexing no matter where you are in the book project.

  • August 15, 2013 at 9:18 am #64874
    Reno Bailey

    Member

    Hold on. In Indesign CC, at least, if you check the Book button on the Index pane, you CAN see all the references, wherever you are.

    • August 15, 2013 at 9:37 am #64875
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      Oh my goodness, Reno, you are right, and I am officially beet red with embarrassment. I haven’t indexed one of my books for a while, an I had completely forgotten that Adobe had added that feature years ago.

      The reason I was oblivious to it, I think is that you must have all the book documents open at the same time for that feature to work.

      I still insist that indexing is hell, though. ;)

    • August 15, 2013 at 9:38 am #64876
      Reno Bailey

      Member

      No harm done. Thanks.

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