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January 26, 2018
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How to create a paragraph number referenced index in InDesign?

  • January 26, 2018
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Hi,

I have a long text of numbered paragraphs in InDesign. Each of them contains some topics and I want to label each paragraph by the relating topics which that paragraph includes them. Then, I want to create an index of topics with reference to paragraph numbers as well as page numbers.

I know that is not possible by default InDesign indexing.

Assume I have a document consisting of 3 numbered paragraph as this image:

I tagged some topics to each paragraph ( two topics to paragraph 1 and one topics to each of paragraph 2 and 3) from Index> New page reference:

assume I tagged topics "InDesign history" to paragraphs 1 and 3, "Page marker topic" to paragraph 1 and "Start of project" to paragraph 2.

I want to create an index at the end of story as below:

Note that the numbered paragraphs may continue to more than 1 page but referring number in the index shouldn't be dependent to page number but only be dependent to number of paragraph with specific paragraph style.

Can anybody suggest me a script doing this job?

Thanks in advance

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