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160 Sort an index by page number

160 Sort an index by page number - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

160 Sort an index by page number

I have a catalog here, and I want to make a table of contents, but I don't want a normal table of contents. I want to specify exactly what text shows up in the table of contents, rather than just pulling the text from whole paragraphs of my document. For example, I'm going to grab the type tool, and I want to select just this word, "Welcome", and I want that word, "Welcome", to be in my table of contents, not the whole paragraph. "Welcome to", or "Welcome to Roux". So I cannot use InDesign's normal table of contents feature to do this, because that feature always grabs whole paragraphs. Instead, I'm going to make my table of contents using the index feature, which let's me put any text I want in it. Now, I'm not going to get into all the many details of indexing here in this short movie. I talk about that in one of my other titles here in the online training library, so I'm going to go through this quickly, and you'll get the idea. First, I need to open my index panel by going to the…

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