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January 24, 2024
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Can regularization automatically detect duplicates and replace unnecessary content without human int

  • January 24, 2024
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When I am doing indexing (manually), it generates many identical entries,

At this point, it is required to leave only one name followed by multiple page numbers.

 

I wrote a regularization that needs to be selected from the entry name, then searched and replaced.

Only one duplicate item can be selected at a time. A large quantity can be troublesome.

Can it be automatically determined to replace the entire document at once.

 

How to improve.

Thank you very much~

 

 

My regularization:
(^ [A-z].+?) (\ d+$)

Replace with:
$2

 

 

 

 

 

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Peter Kahrel
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 24, 2024

It looks as if the core of the problem is that you use the table-of-contents feature, not the index. If you want index-like output, mark up things with index markers.

dublove
dubloveAuthor
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January 25, 2024

Hi~Peter Kahrel.

We never use the indexing function, Indesign's indexing is very cumbersome and inefficient.

We usually use a table of contents to create indexes in conjunction with Excel.

dublove
dubloveAuthor
Legend
January 24, 2024

Oh my god,I am so sorry.

that seems to be what I asked too.

I have been unable to log in to community.adobe.com for a long time to reply

I almost forgot that post.

These days, after a long struggle, I am able to get on again.

 

However, it seems that it was not resolved at the time.

Perhaps we can only request@brian_p_dts ,We should abandon that post and focus on this one.

Alignment may require manual labor. Just be able to automatically remove duplicates.