How to Change Index Cross-Reference Language in InDesign

Question

My indesign version has menus in Dutch, probably because my Windows has Dutch as its language. I am working on a book in English, so I want the cross references in the index to be in English. The list of words plus page numbers is no problem, but cross references look like "SSC. Zie ook standard contract clauses." In an English book that should, of course, be "SCC. See also standard contract clauses". Any idea how I can teach the index function to use the language of my text? I know, there is a work around using search and replace every time I generate the index. But I'm looking for a real solution.
Thanks for your help
 
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Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

@Abhishek Rao -- The discussion you posted the link for confuses cross-references created in the Cross-References panel and cross-references defined in the New Page Reference window (well, it is confusing). The solution provided there refers to cross-references done in the Cross-References panel.

@Leo1948 -- The only way I see is to use custom cross-references. If I were to produce an index for a Dutch book in my English InDesign, I'd do Zie and Zie ook as custom cross-refs:

Abhishek Rao · Answer

Hi @Leo1948,

There is a helpful community discussion that walks through this exact situation. Please try the steps mentioned here: Change language of index cross references and let me know if that helps resolve it for you.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Abhishek

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