InDesign cs6 Indexing - Tutorial on how to create an Index for your Book!

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In this InDesign tutorial I will show you an easy way to create an Index in indesign, for your book or long document. We discuss all you need to know = ) The final result is an PDF document with an Index, that is clickable (linked to the pages of the document). Happy indexing every one! Make sure to watch the whole videos, useful extra tips at the end!
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@MarcodigitalBrasil 9 лет назад

I simply loved his explanation! I am Brazilian and I speak little English. And although you have the German accent (it seemed to me), his way of explaining was very good, really. Got it in practice more than 80% of the things you said. This is a challenge for me because I have difficulty understanding English when people talk a little faster. With you, it was great! Another important point is your personal position because you are very friendly and pleasant in their explanations. Congratulations!

@KPMDesign 9 лет назад

You have a good manner and approach: relaxed, but not boring. Thanks for putting this together.

@heinrichmalina1395 3 года назад

Very happy! Sehr gut erklärt, sehr übersichtlich ... viele wichtige Tipps und Hinweise ... Außerdem sehr mutig, eine Video in einer Sprache zu machen, die nicht die Muttersprache ist. Hut ab! Ganz herzlichen Dank! Und gutes Gelingen bei GIS & Co ... ist ja auch eine recht komplexe Welt!

@Fucker666Miau 6 лет назад

Niemand besser als ein Deutscher, Ordnung zu erklären ; ) Danke sehr!

@big_boy_bobo 9 лет назад

Very helpful! Clearly explained and nicely presented, a very good tutorial. I watched all your InDesign tutorials and I recommend them to every newbie like me, I learned a lot. Thanks so much and keep up the good work!

@JCLFA 7 лет назад

Beautiful, logical, intelligent, supremely helpful!! Thank you.

@TheTrekker80 11 лет назад

This is a tough subject and you do a great job trying to teach it to me. Plus your little joke at the end really made me laugh. Thankyou for this!

@russsmith5267 10 лет назад

Nice Job on a Tough Subject! Tomorrow, I will get into it and learn on my own from your excellent guidance. I have a much better idea and confidence now after watching your video. I appreciate your posting this. It definitely will be a big help. Best Regards, Russ

@alfredcalleja450 11 лет назад

Hi unluckylion, Thank you for a very well presented tutorial. I found it to be invaluable. I'm about to create an index for a friend who has researched a topic and written a 400 page document on it. I have never used InDesign before so your video has made it possible for me to help him out. Kind Regards, Alfred

@beatriztannuri5093 5 лет назад

Hey! Thank you soo much for this video! I really like your explatation and your way to show every thing. See you in the next video :)

@tizianamanierka5534 6 лет назад

Great explanation- very clear. Thank you so much!

@markchristianshaw 9 лет назад

Thank you. This was well thought out and explained.

@shampakabi127 8 лет назад

Extremely helpful tips ! thanks :)

6 лет назад

Thanks for the video. Very helpful!

@SuzannaKiraly 9 лет назад

Thanks for giving so much information. This was much more helpful than reading info by Adobe on how to do the indexing.

@rob64z 8 лет назад

Als Amerikaner der InDesign und auch deutsch gerne liebt, vielen Dank!

@TorontoIam 11 лет назад

Your tuts are wonderful...thanks!

@obilorjim 6 лет назад

Good job Lucky. Thumbs up!!!!

@belladiagramacao 2 года назад

Very good! Thanks so much, your tutorial helps me a lot!

@UFOBobTV 11 лет назад

Thank you for the tutorial. It was helpful.

@erdogankocak 4 года назад

thank you for the very helpful lesson

@mszaryJ 4 года назад

Thank you for the sharing. In here year 2019. Good Job! I am from Malaysia.

@joannawie 4 года назад

Very nice and useful. Thx a lot !!

@maellec.7034 5 лет назад

Thank you for this video, it was very useful

@VascoElbrecht 11 лет назад

Hello Alfred, thank you for your comment. I'm happy I could help!

@teresaturner4667 9 лет назад

Thank you. That was very helpful.

@shobalmani1 9 лет назад

Very nicely explained. Great German accent too.

@dianamoyarodriguez5742 6 лет назад

Great job!! Thanks!

@patriciodezalot 4 года назад

Thank you so much! This was really helpfull!

@rogervize 11 лет назад

Very well presented ... Easy to follow your tutes and a pleasure listening to your 'German English' :-) thanks

@tamarodayabodner5163 6 лет назад

thank you, very helpful!

@sandan3 10 лет назад

great tutorial, thx!

@CristyOrtiz 7 лет назад

Thank you very helpful!

@OtaGaudencio 2 года назад

Very nice!!! Thank you!!!

@HenrikStigMller 8 лет назад

Thank you. You're very good.

@krissazaki5698 7 лет назад

Vielen Dank! Sehr hilfreich.

@BagusSetiyaAdiGunawan 2 года назад

thank you, very helpfull, god bless you

@travelwithJMS 11 лет назад

Thanks very well Explained :)

@dtpitypografia 9 лет назад

great job:) thanks very much...

@novapq77 11 лет назад

Thanks so much for your well explained index video. It will help me a lot right now I am creating a 1450 catalog and need to start working on it. As you menthion its not so nice to do it but Adobe InDesing Help a lot. Thanks again for your nice help sharing this.

@lfcorullon 10 лет назад

Do you know if there is a way to create thumb indexes in InDesign? Thanks!

@pilarpinchart 11 лет назад

muchas gracias! super clear!

@VascoElbrecht 11 лет назад

hello, yes! You can place the image in a text frame. then link to the image by putting a marker for the index right behind the image. I hope that helps = )

@lemonakis 8 лет назад

As always clear and into the point tutorial. Thank you very much. One question though: can I also do this hyperlink connection after exporting to a PDF for endnotes? I know that InDesign works flawlessly with footnotes, but endnotes is a total pain...

@VascoElbrecht 11 лет назад

I'm happy that you like it ^^thank you for your nice comment = )

@DemetriosMPapadakes 11 лет назад

Thank you!

@LEDLightsFL 5 лет назад

When I create my index as you describe, it works flawlessly! However, my index is of part numbers which consist of letters and numbers so when I use the script to sort the entries cronologically, it includes the numbers which are part of the part number and sorts things completely wrong. Is there a way to look at the part number as a WHOLE then sort cronilogical by page number?

@andersonpiresaires3844 3 года назад

Thank you! Do you know if is possible to generate two different index in the same book with different informations?

@alanduckworth8974 9 лет назад

Go Germany! World Cup! Nice Index, very helpful.

@portiazwicker3986 11 лет назад

Hi unluckylion. Thank you for this! Question: Is there a way to tag an index entry as an image? For instance, my ID file has a diagram and I want to list it in the index as an instance of a term. Often indeces will list the page number followed by an italic i or something, indicating image. Thanks!

@daoudsarhandi 3 года назад

Hi. Thanks for the video. I do not understand how you display on-screen the red roof sign as you describe it at 1.47 for words that you have indexed. Is there an instruction for that display that I can't find?

@WanderingDalinP 11 лет назад

Thank you so much

@RachaelKHartman 8 лет назад

I'm working with a very long textbook (500 pages). I've figured out how to "add all" (which is great), but how do I limit it from listing the same page number multiple times? The words I'm including often appear multiple times on one page, so when I press "add all" - it's adding a number every time the word appears.

@DemetriosMPapadakes 10 лет назад

you can do without java scripts: make list of names in MSWord (name,enter,name,enter,and so on) select all,apply heading style.In Indesign create master pages with linked boxes the size of ONE name in height.Either paste names in first box OR paste all names in blank Indesign pages. (Apply paragraph style as needed if MSWord headings style didn't transfer to Indesign). Then add Body text as you please.After,do what this video tutorial says.(check alphabetically in index options)

@fhugof 12 лет назад

Thanks!

@cree_VI 8 лет назад

is there more automatic index creation? when working with huge books this method took too long

@priscilaexperimentacoes3300 3 года назад

Hello there, I've watched your awesome video, but one question remains. For example, how do I index "Hand 3, 5" whereas in both instances on the text I have to highlight the same exact word. ID will not make duplicates. What is the workaround? Regards, Priscila

@AsarImhotep 11 лет назад

How would this work if you are doing a book and decided to make each chapter its own separate indesign file which are linked together?

@24murielle 11 лет назад

Hi unluckylion. Thank you for ur great support. I just want to ask you if i have a book lets say something looking like an annual book where the 400 pages only have names of graduate people with a brief for a each one.. how can i make an index at the end of the book where i can only have the 100000 names sorted alphatically with the number of page where each name is. Can you help me with this. Thanks a lot

@SALAKIDOU 7 месяцев назад

Can I create two different indexes one for names and one for terms (separate)?

@VascoElbrecht 11 лет назад

hmmm good question, i never tried that. I assume as long as you have the main book document open indexing should work globally for all your documents. Anything else would not make much sense. You might need to synchronise the index over the book pannel, but well I'm not really sure. sorry : /

@manuloop 7 лет назад

Do you know any way to import that list from an excel or txt file?

@AsarImhotep 11 лет назад

I think I figured it out. Going to Window > Type & Tables > Index, when the dialogue box pops up it has a check box for "Book," which I assume applies to the whole book. I will play with it and see what happens.

@MarcTreneman 9 лет назад

god job!

@drawtheword7590 7 лет назад

und danke! for the video helpful

@Juanntull1 8 лет назад

Hi, thnx for the helpful video but I not understood how did you create the page on minute 15.52. This have the all index text clickable, this is what I need and not only making the clickable number. thnx a lot :)

@VascoElbrecht 11 лет назад

hey, sounds like something you would need a script for (java scripts do work in indesign). I'm not familiar with these things, but I think people on the official adobe forum will have an idea. As far I know InDesing can not do this out of the box.

@carpek8752 8 лет назад

love the T

@volkerjanssen7905 3 года назад

Hi Lucky Lion. Thanks for this introduction to indexing. I've translated a 200page illustrated book about music and the original already has about 1000 words indexed. I wonder if there is a way for InDesign to search certain words that appear more than once and to place the page numbers, comma separated behind the one index entry. Do I have to go to each singe place manually and add the entry or can I tell Indesign to do the job for me?

@mrparker4597 2 года назад

This is what I want to know! Did you find a way?

@volkerjanssen7905 2 года назад

@@mrparker4597 no, i haven't. i had to do it all manually. sorry...

@corinnewieser8267 5 месяцев назад

Hallo Vasco Elbrecht, Danke für dein super Video. Etwas was ich noch gerne wissen möchte wie man "Page Range" im Index erstellt. z.B. Seite 1-5 anstatt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Leider finde ich diese Information nirgends. Herzliche Grüsse aus Haiti wo ich als Schweizer Grafikerin ein Schulbuch erstelle und momentan gerade am indexieren bin.

@payalmandhalkar7837 2 года назад

can we do all this through scripting ?

@raltinbas50 11 лет назад

thanks

@DemetriosMPapadakes 10 лет назад

you make the index AFTER the book has been put together,i.e. after the project is consolidated. But open indexing SHOULD work.

@peninapearl6491 4 года назад

who can explain me what is index , table of content and Glossary ??

@alanduckworth8974 9 лет назад

How do you add a back button back to the index on all the pages?

@alanduckworth8974 8 лет назад

+Matt Gill Thanks Matt, works great.

@Djdjdndbsajakenuxbbd 4 года назад

So the topic panel is just for reference here, not to create real references, just to remind yourself of the structure.

@drawtheword7590 7 лет назад

Anyone out there know how to create a index that uses say Russian alphabet or Japanese katakana, hiragana etc. ? all I can create is ABC... i need index of АБВ... ; あいお... i know i can add them to the Latin index, but one problem not all characters = a letter in the Latin alphabet. so where would i put ж ? no equivalent or say し,　か ? I'll try to find the answer myself but so far no luck but i will continue searching

@drawtheword7590 7 лет назад

I figured out, you just go to - Index panel menu> Sort Options> from there you just check the boxes of the languages you need. in addition if you chose Cyrillic it is by default: Russian so if you need Ukrainian etc. you go to the right of the check box> there will be a drop down menu for you to choose.