Getting index duplicates to appear on one line listing page numbers

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 18, 2025
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Hello! I have duplicate part numbers that are being listed separately. However, there are part numbers that appear in multiple pages in my catalog. How do I get duplicates to list on the same line in the index with all the page numbers that the part number can be found on?

What I currently have:

14344-01.............. 209

14344-01.............. 211

What I want:

14344-01.............. 209, 211

Thank you SO MUCH for your help! I've been searching the web for answers and can't come across anything!

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

If you marked upp the InDesign file with index markers and generated the index from InDesign, then if you see the topic 14344-01 appear twice, that means that either the names aren't really the same or you set someting in the sort-order field of one topic name but ot the other.

In your case, maybe the dashes aren't the same -- one a normal hyphen, the other, a non-breaking hyphen. Check that by editing the topic names: in both, delete the hyphen and type a normal hyphen.

If that doesn't fix it, maybe there's an invisible character at the end of one of the topic names. In the topic name field, press End to move the cursor to the end of the field, then press the BackSpace key until you delete the last character of the topic name. Then reenter the last character. Generate the index and check again.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

It's not sorted? Is it a manual or automatically generated Index?

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Abby1551Author

Participant

It is automatically generated, I've tried to sort the entries by alphabetical order but there's a bunch of part numbers that start with numbers, not letters so the beginning part of the index pictured is bit messy.