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• • September 9, 2015 at 11:41 am #78008
    Ugo Gagne

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    Hello fellow Indesigners!

    I have a question concerning indexes.
    I’ll expose the situation and desired outcome.

    The project is a list of educational films with synopsis as well as keywords describing the the subjects covered. Like so :

    [Movie 1] // P style “Movie Title”
    [familly, history, ethics] // P style “keywords”
    [sysnopsis] // P style “sysnopsis”

    I have 4 movies per pages.

    Now I need to index the movies by keywords. Meaning one movie will appear more than once in the index. The output i need is like this :

    ETHICS
    page # >> Movie 1
    page # >> Movie 3
    page # >> Movie 10

    FAMILY
    page # >> Movie 1
    page # >> Movie 4
    page # >> Movie 5

    HISTORY
    page # >> Movie 1
    page # >> Movie 3

    So I have to have :
    – the keywords in alphabetical order ;
    – the page numbers followed by a tab ; and
    – the movie title concerned by the keyword

    And now i ask you is this even possible ?

    Many thanks for your kind help! Please let me know if this not exactly clear and understandable.

    Best,

    Ugo

  • September 10, 2015 at 2:31 am #78014
    Peter Kahrel

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    Ugo,

    Makes perfect sense, but your index is possible only through scripting, InDesign wouldn’t be able to create your index on its own. You’d have to commission someone to write it for you.

    Peter

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