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Paula27847432xg3x
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January 15, 2023
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  • January 15, 2023
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Dear all,
I am contacting you from Azores Islands/ Portugal and I am a recent user of InDesign and I need your help, if you can. I am doing a scientific guide for algae and I need to do a "detailed" index if I can call it that way. I don't know if i should use a index or cross reference. Let me explain how I need the scientific names to appear:
I have this:
Stylonema alsidii
and I want it to appear like this "Stylonema alsidii" (page 33) and like this "alsidii, Stylonema" (page 33).
Is there a way I can do it.
Thank you so much for your help in advance.
Best,
Paula

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Randy Hagan
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Randy HaganCommunity Expert
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January 15, 2023

Following on what Eugene Tyson offered, it's easy to create multiple entries using the New Page Reference dialog box.

 

  • Highlight your text, then open the Index panel and select the New Page Reference... menu command from the flyaway menu at the upper-right of the panel.
  • This opens the New Page Reference dialog box. If you highlighted the term before selecting the flyaway menu command, it will be listed in the 1 edit box under the Topic Levels: section. Click the Add button to the upper-right of the dialog box. This creates your new index entry.
  • Go back to the 1 edit box under Topic Levels: section and edit to create your second index entry. Click the OK button at the upper-right of the dialog box to create your second, alternate index entry, applied to the same text you applied your first index entry and return to the InDesign document.

 

You now have both index entries applied to the same text within your InDesign document. It's that easy.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Randy

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    Paula27772140ydqf
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    January 17, 2023

    Hi Randy,

    thank you so much for your answer! I was out for some days. I will try to do as you explain and I hope it works.

    Best,

    Paula

    Randy Hagan
    Community Expert
    Randy HaganCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 8, 2023

    So, just to follow up ... did that response help you get your multiple entries created for your index?

     

    Randy

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
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    January 15, 2023

    We've got very little information for you as the context of what you want to achieve is very vague and ambiguous. 

     

    You can use either, I guess. A bit more info and examples of what you are doing are required.

     

    Cross References

    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/cross-references.html#:~:text=Choose%20Type%20%3E%20Hyperlinks%20%26%20Cross%2D,Reference%20button%20in%20the%20panel.

     

    Indexes

    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/creating-index.html

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