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Advanced live index features in InDesign

November 7, 2022 By Fiona Raven Leave a Comment

Live index showing advanced features.InDesign’s live index includes some great advanced features: you can add italics to the index, add bold page numbers for illustrations, and even create a live index across several documents using InDesign’s Book feature.

Be sure to first read our earlier blog post, Create a live index in InDesign, to learn the basics of creating a live index. [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: Book feature, index, paragraph styles, typesetting

Create a live index in InDesign

September 12, 2022 By Fiona Raven 3 Comments

Start a live index in InDesignIt’s easy to create a live index for your book in InDesign, and there’s a major benefit to doing so: If you move any of your text, the index markers stay with the text and the index automatically updates!

In Book Design Made Simple, we explain how to create paragraph styles for indexes, how to import an index from Word, and how to typeset an index. Here, we’ll explain the simplest way to create a live index in InDesign.
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Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: index, typesetting

Error importing Word index into InDesign

May 13, 2019 By Fiona Raven 2 Comments

Import Word index to InDesign errorIf you’re importing a Word index into InDesign, chances are good that the index will import just fine. But what if you get the dreaded “index entries contain invalid characters” error? This happened to one of our readers recently. It’s a tricky issue to resolve since InDesign doesn’t specify which characters are invalid. With a Word index containing hundreds (or thousands!) of entries, how can you find the specific characters causing the issue?  [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: index, typesetting

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