Index a list of words in the end of a long document

[Jakobsen2]

Hi.

How can I make an Index of a list of 600 words in the end of a long document, without having to add them to the index one by one, it would take a very long time!

[Doug A Roberts]

if you know what they are, do you have them in some form already? are they a unique paragraph/character style?

[Jakobsen2]

yes, I have a list of words separated by (^b) and have them in one style.

[Doug A Roberts]

my first thought would be to use the table of contents options, perverse as that might seem (layout > Table of contents). it'll gather up all text in a particular style for you.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

See:

Index | Peter Kahrel

(^/)

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

I've personally [not in the public domain] another approach inspired from Martin Fischer's script "IndexFromCharacterStyle_MartinFischer.jsx".

After putting the cursor in the future Index story, from a words list, the script applies a condition to all these words (less risky than a char style) in the main document and creates topics. It just finishes by the index generation!

(^/) For idea!

[Jakobsen2]

yes well i misunderstood,  and the words that I have to have an index on I have a list of them, but I need to an Index to fint them all within the long text, and in the long text they are not in a separate style, so Table of Contents will not work.

[Geоrge · Accepted solution]

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2011/02/introducing-indexmatic-2-beta

[Jakobsen2]

can this be used for Indesign CC (2017)?

[Jakobsen2]

seems like this program does the thing I'm after, to bad Indesign does not have this by default. Thanks.