• Adobe InDesign

  CS3 Index Anomaly

  Posted by James Roller on February 18, 2010 at 11:45 pm

  Creating an index for a high school yearbook that I advise. Remember having this problem in the past (last year?), but don’t remember the solution. I did search both the web and these forums, but alas….

  Using Snow Leopard with CS3 (5.0.4).

  Have a list of names (class pages). Have the following:

  Jenna Grooms
  Donald Grove
  Nancy Ha
  Paige Hadler
  Tyler Hall
  Jason Hammond
  Gregory Harrelson

  Selected all names in a story.

  Pressed Shift Option Command Right Bracket

  The resulting index lists them in the following order:

  Hadler, Paige
  Hall, Tyler
  Hammond, Jason
  Ha, Nancy
  Harrelson, Gregory…

  This is true throughout. Looking at another set of names in the index palette:

  Valari Grant
  Justin Gravlee
  Anthony Green
  Christianna Green
  Evangelene Green
  Johnna Green

  Navania Green
  Richard Green
  Shakeila Greene
  Erik Gregg
  Marikah Gregg

  I end up with the following…

  …Green, Christianna
  Greene, Shakeila
  Green, Evangelene

  Upon closer inspection, one recognizes that InDesign is indexing oblivious of the fact that there is a comma and the first name. In the Ha case, InDesign perceives the name as “han…” instead of Ha, N…. In the case of Shakeila Greene, InDesign sees “Greenes…” (or Greene, Shakeila) which would logically precede “Greenev….” (or Green, Evangelene).

  So, obviously, this is a bug.

  How do I squish it?

  Thanks in advance….

  James Roller replied 16 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  James Roller

  February 20, 2010 at 6:43 pm

  Looks like it is not specific to CS3. Downloaded CS4, created a new document and tried Larry Ha, Nancy Ha, Able Ham.

  Indexed them like this:

  Ha, Larry
  Ham, Able
  Ha, Nancy

  Really an absurd error. I have submitted it as a bug to Adobe.

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