Affinity Publisher: The colour of the index

[Pyanepsion]

Hello to all.

1. I would like all indexed words to appear in the text with a particular font style. How do I do this effectively?
2. What is the Override Style when inserting an index mark?

Thank you for your explanations.

[walt.farrell]

Override Style is explained in the Help. It changes the appearance of the page number in the index for that entry. For example, you might want some numbers in bold to signify they're a more important occurrence of the term.

If you want the indexed term to have a different format in the text, you have to assign it manually. Note that Text Styles can have keyboard shortcuts, which would make it easier to select the term and assign a special style to it.

[Pyanepsion]

1. This is what I was afraid of in the first question. A lot of time is lost if you have to go back to each index mark to automatically assign a character style to the words or phrases in the index marks. In this kind of work, we are often talking about thousands of marks.
   As an example, for a small book of 250 pages, pointing out each word or expression to add a style represents at the very least an unnecessary waste of time of about 10 to 12 hours of work that could be avoided.
   A feature should therefore be created to automatically assign a character style to words or phrases in index marks.
2. For the second point, I haven't actually found how to change this once the entry mark has been entered.

[walt.farrell]

1. Double-click the word. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+[ to add the Index Mark (or perhaps that's a ], I never remember). Then hit the shortcut to assign your Character Text Style. That's at most 2 extra clicks or keystrokes per mark.

2. I'm away from the PC, but editing the index mark should let you change it.

[MikeTO]

6 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

What is the Override Style when inserting an index mark?

There's a bug with Style Override - it doesn't work with facing pages. But my post in this thread will show you how it's intended to work.