Using third-party indexing tools

- Indexing is a tough job,…and when you're making an index with InDesign,…you might find that it lacks features…for building the specific kind of entries you need.…Or you might find that it just takes…too much time and effort and you need some automation…to get the job done on time.…Fortunately, there are some commercial third-party options…with powerful indexing features.…Let's take a quick look at some of them.…The first one I want to show you here…is a script called IndexMatic, by Marc Autret.…You can find it at his website, indiscripts.com.…

With IndexMatic, you don't have to…place index markers in your documents.…Instead, IndexMatic uses a search-based method…of building an index.…You tell it what to search for,…and it builds the index from what it finds.…You can target your search to specific documents, pages,…layers, or even content that's formatted…in specific paragraph and character styles or style groups.…And it has even more powerful methods of targeting searches…with GRUB-like queries.…You can run a query list by loading a text file…