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Adobe InDesign Help
Creating Books, Tables of Contents, and Indexes
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Formatting an index
When you click More Options in the Generate Index dialog box, formatting options appear
that let you determine the style and appearance of the generated index. InDesign
includes a number of built-in paragraph and character styles that you can select to format
the generated index, or you can create and select your own styles. After you generate the
index, you can edit these styles in the Paragraph Styles and Character Styles palettes.
A.
Title
B.
Section heading
C.
Level 1 entry
D.
Level 2 subentry
E.
Cross-reference
F.
Reference topic
The following formatting options appear when you click More Options in the Generate
Index dialog box:
Nested/Run-in
Select this option to determine whether the index is formatted in the
default Nested style, with subentries as separate indented paragraphs, or Run-in style,
with all levels of an entry appearing in a single paragraph. The Between Entries option
determines which characters separate the entries.
Include Index Section Headings
Select this option to generate section headings
consisting of alphabet characters (A, B, C, and so on) representing the section that follows.
Include Empty Index Sections
Select this option to generate section headings for all
letters of the alphabet, even if the index lacks any first-level entries that begin with a
particular letter.
Level Style
For each index level, choose a paragraph style to be applied to each level of
index entries. You can edit these styles in the Paragraph Styles palette after you generate
the index.
Section Heading
Select the paragraph style that determines the appearance of the
section headings (A, B, C, and so on) in the generated index.
Page Number
Select the character style that determines the appearance of the page
numbers in the generated index. This setting does not affect index entries you formatted
using the Number Style Override option.
Note:
If you want the page numbers in the index to include prefixes, as in B-1 or II-1, see
“Defining section numbering” on page 52
.
Cross-reference
Select the character style that determines the appearance of cross-
reference text (such as
See
and
See also
) in the generated index.
Cross-referenced Topic
Select the character style that determines the appearance of the
topic being referred to (such as
beasts
in
See also beasts
) in the generated index.
Index
A
animals
bears
9
cats
19
B
bears
10
C
Calico.
See also animals: cats
cats
11
B
A
C
D
E
F