long document with heading numbering - create index which is referencing paragraph heading numbers

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November 20, 2023
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Hello dear community. I'm working on company quality manuals. all paragraphs having their respective styles and heading paragraphs having numbering like 2.1.2.3. Right under each numbered heading paragraphs i have a line "Reference: ..." with (cross) reference to applicable rule making. I placed all the rulemaking references first in an Excel. sheet. Then conferted that to word doc to have a list with Index words. Imported this list, generated the indexing and getting an Index in the document where the Page Numbers are referenced. So far so good. However, I need to have a reference to the numbered Heading paragraph instead the page number. Indesign doesn't not support this out of the box. I'm looking for a script that can do this.

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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Before - with Variables:

After converting "Variables to Text"

But this would require two steps:

1) overriding TFs with Running Header on all pages

2) conversion of Variables to Text.

Of course, the whole process would have to be done on the copy of the file - and repeated every time you update your text - siginificantly.

Peter Kahrel

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Well, Robert, converting paragraph numbers to text is a piece of cake whichever way you do it. The non-trivial bit is doing an index with those paragrapoh numbers as locators.

@FRIdNGE showed a script that does that, but I can't find the post. It wasn't too long ago.