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Creating an index

Creating an index - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating an index

One feature your readers will definitely appreciate is an index, especially if your magazine is lengthy or complex, with lots of articles, topics and authors. The hardest part of building a great index isn't setting up the end design file. It's choosing the right set of topics from your magazine's content. Fortunately, once you've chosen the topics for your index, you can build it and the interactivity will be automatically added. The topic of building an index in InDesign is one that could take up several movies. So if you really want an in-depth look at the indexing process, I recommend you check out my course on creating long documents with InDesign. In it, I have a whole chapter on creating and formatting index entries and using some third-party tools to make up for some of InDesign's indexing limitations. But for our magazine, I can just illustrate the interactivity of an index, by working with one that I'd already started and then testing it. So I have the Index panel open here,…

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