Preserving formatting in an index

- In this movie, we're gonna look at a common problem…in indexing which is how to get character level formatting…like italics into your index entries for things…like book titles, newspapers, magazines, and so on.…For example, I have the title Alice in Wonderland right…here and that should be italicized since it's a book title.…But the problem is when I include items like this…in an InDesign index, the italics gets lost…even though it appeared in the original text.…I can apply paragraph styles to each level of index…but no character level formatting is preserved.…

The solution to this problem combines a little…bit of text tagging with a GREP find/change.…To get started what I need to do is go to my index panel…and look at the Alice and Wonderland reference…and double click the page number.…In the dialogue box, I'm gonna…apply some tags to the topic level.…So, I'll put my cursor before it and…you can create whatever tags you like.…I'm gonna use some square brackets and…then put my cursor inbetween the brackets…