Publisher create index questions - main entry and page range

[Alex White]

I've created an index for a large document. I've run into a couple of problems and I don't know whether there is a way of handing them at the moment within Publisher. 

Firstly, I can see that I can add a character style to a particular index term, but is there an ability to add a character style to one of the page numbers of a term? For instance, if the main information about foo is mentioned on p34, I would like to have an entry like so:

foo......23, 24, 34, 56, 90

Secondly, is there any way to tell the index to record a range of pages for an index entry? This would be another way of handling my 'main entry' question, and if my most important entry for 'foo' was on pages 34 to 36 it would let me have an entry like so:

foo........23, 24, 34-36, 56, 90

(1.8.4 on MacOS Catalina)

I'm not sure whether these are features that exist and I can't find them, or don't exist yet. 

Any help?

 

Thanks

Alex

 

[walt.farrell]

If you generate an index, and then select a page number in the index, and then look at the Text Styles studio panel, you will see something like this:

In that display, "Index Entry 1" is the paragraph text style for that index entry, and "Index Entry Page Number" is the character text style for that number. You can also see that in the Context Toolbar, perhaps in an easier way:

If you want that number treated differently, e.g. bold, then you can specify a different character text style for it, or simply mark it Bold in the Context Toolbar if the font supports that.

Unfortunately, if you update the index later, the styles will revert to the default styles, and you will lose the bold setting for your updated numbers.

For grouping, have you tried the option in the Index studio panel?

[Alex White]

Thanks for the reply,

I've been able to embolden one page entry now, thanks!

On the second part though...

I've had the "Group page ranges" selected, but it hasn't seemed to make any difference.

In the screenshot below at the bottom, I've arbitrarily added some index entries on adjacent pages for 'Cybernetics', but when I regenerated the index it still shows them as separate pages (second screenshot) (the index panel shows actual page numbers, but front matter is i to iv, which is why numbering in index is different).

I'm not sure how "Group page ranges" is supposed to be working.