Index: Firstname / Lastname

[Jens Arner]

'm about to make a family book, containing several thousand names, which I would like to index. How about I made a normal index with names, ie last name, first name. ??

[Dan C]

Hi Jens Arner,

Welcome to the forums

This has been previously covered in the below topic -

You can also find a tutorial for Indexing here - https://affinity.serif.com/tutorials/publisher/desktop/video/337458844

I hope this helps!

[Jens Arner]

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately it does not solve the 
problem, or maybe it's me who doesn't understand the suggestion

I have a long story about the family and its history. It's a story I've made in Indesign before, and now via a PDF copied into Publisher, that works better than Indesign.
In this report, there is approx. 9,000 names that I now have to 
index, as surnames, first names.

Do you have any suggestions, ie. a macro or equivalent or...?

Kind regards

[Dan C]

My sincerest apologies for the delayed response.

Unfortunately there's no macro capabilities for this, you'll have to manually add the Indexes from the Index Studio. Alternative you could use Find and Replace to locate the name(s) and then use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + [ (Windows) or CMD + OPTION + SHIFT + [ (Mac) to add an Index Marker for the highlighted word - I hope this helps!