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Anticipate the variety of ways by which your readers might look up information. For
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instance, one reader may search for information on animals by looking under beasts;
another may look for wildlife or fauna.
Add index entries when the content of your document is fairly stable. If you delete large
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portions of your text later, you may lose some of your indexing work.
Review your index several times before you generate the final index. Look for
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duplicate entries, weak subject areas, misspellings, and inconsistencies in capitalization
and wording; for example, InDesign treats Cheetah, cheetah, and cheetahs as
separate entries.
Adding page references to an index
The Index palette includes two modes: Reference mode and Topic mode. In Reference
mode, the preview area displays page-reference entries in the current document or book.
In Topic mode, the preview area displays only topics, not page numbers or cross-refer-
ences; see "Creating topics for an index" on page
create page-reference entries.
If you index text on a master page, the master page label appears in the Index palette. If
you index text on the pasteboard, "PB" appears in the index palette. However, these labels
will not appear in the generated index.
To add index references:
1 Using the type tool
appear, or select text to use as the basis for an index reference.
Note: When selected text contains inline graphics or special characters, some characters
(such as index markers and inline graphics) are stripped out in the Topic Level box. Other
characters, such as em dashes and copyright symbols, are converted to metacharacters
(for example, ^_ or ^2).
2 Choose Window > Index to display the Index palette.
3 Select Reference.
4 To view references from any open documents in the book, select Book.
5 Choose New Page Reference in the Index palette menu. (If this command does not
appear, make sure Reference is selected and that there is an insertion point or text
selection in the document.)
6 To add text to the Topic Levels box, do any of the following:
To create a simple index entry (such as cats), type the entry in the first Topic Levels box.
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(If text was selected, that text appears in the Topic Levels box.)
To create entries and subentries, type the parent name (for this example, animals) in
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the first Topic Levels box, and type subentries (cats and Calicos) in subsequent boxes. If
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Creating Books, Tables of Contents, and Indexes
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, place the insertion point where you want the index marker to
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189. You must be in Reference mode to
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