(Adobe Indesign CS6) how to order my index alphabetically for dummies

Completely forgot about that one. And it's only a year ago!

When you replace the comms (and the following space) with something that sorst before a letter, the index is sorted correctly. You do that in the sort-order field. So when you set the sort-order field of this one:

Blom, Nicolaas Selhorst (1899-1972)

to this:

Blom0Nicolaas Selhorst (1899-1972)

Blom sorts before Blomberg. You'd have to do all comma's naturally. This little script does that:

re = /, ?/g;
topics = app.activeDocument.indexes[0].allTopics;
for (i = topics.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
  topics[i].sortOrder = topics[i].name.replace (re, '0');
}

There are other index sort anomalies but your name problem is mostly fixed.

P.

@Derek_Cross (and others)

Well. I'll try it again as my posts dissappear for some reason ...

I do not need my index to be "hyperlinked". I just want a better indexing order.

New example:

Indesign ordens as follows ...

Blomberg, Werner Eduard Fritz von (1878-1946)

Blom, Nicolaas Selhorst (1899-1972)

But I would like to see THIS ...

Blom, Nicolaas Selhorst (1899-1972)

Blomberg, Werner Eduard Fritz von (1878-1946)

So - on the fifth position - I want the COMMA before the b! (and the same for the SPACE).

Thank you for your help!