BreathEasy Posted June 19, 2024 Posted June 19, 2024 Hi, I created an index by creating 'index marks' on specific words and parked those under headings or parent topics within the book. HOWEVER, I'd like to remove the parent topic/headings in the index. How do I do this while still maintaining the words I 'marked' to be included in the index AND maintain its alphabetical sorting of those indexed words and terms? OR Is it simply easier to delete the entire index and start from scratch? If that's the case, how do I REMOVE the index mark from each of the marked words and terms? Thanks Quote
MikeTO Posted June 19, 2024 Posted June 19, 2024 3 hours ago, BreathEasy said: Hi, I created an index by creating 'index marks' on specific words and parked those under headings or parent topics within the book. HOWEVER, I'd like to remove the parent topic/headings in the index. How do I do this while still maintaining the words I 'marked' to be included in the index AND maintain its alphabetical sorting of those indexed words and terms? OR Is it simply easier to delete the entire index and start from scratch? If that's the case, how do I REMOVE the index mark from each of the marked words and terms? Thanks Do you mean you created an index like this: Fruit Apples Kiwis Pears Veggies Potatoes But now want all the fruits to be their own topics like this? Apples Kiwis Pears Veggies Potatoes I checked and while you can drag topics into a topic to make them a subtopic, and drag a subtopic from one topic to another, you can't drag a topic up to the parent level. It seems like an oversight to me and that it should work. I will submit a feedback item for this. But here's how to solve it. Let's say you want to move Apples up to the parent level. Create a new topic (click the + icon in the panel toolbar) and enter Apples. This will create a new topic at the same level as Fruit. Now drag the reference markers from Fruit > Apples to the new Apples topic. When you're done, delete the old Apples subtopic and when you're done with all of the subtopics, you can delete the Fruit parent topic. Make sense? Good luck Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro)
BreathEasy Posted June 19, 2024 Author Posted June 19, 2024 Hi, thanks for this. And yes, you have the idea. Though, no Major Topic, just a an alphabetical list of terms I marked in the text. It appears you're saying I can drag the actual index entries around inside the index, is that correct? Because I tried to select the term in the index, and it just highlights it as if you want to edit the text. How do you 'drag' reference markers from one topic level to another? I think that's the piece I'm missing. Quote
MikeTO Posted June 19, 2024 Posted June 19, 2024 23 minutes ago, BreathEasy said: Hi, thanks for this. And yes, you have the idea. Though, no Major Topic, just a an alphabetical list of terms I marked in the text. It appears you're saying I can drag the actual index entries around inside the index, is that correct? Because I tried to select the term in the index, and it just highlights it as if you want to edit the text. How do you 'drag' reference markers from one topic level to another? I think that's the piece I'm missing. Just drag anywhere on an index topic or index reference marker in the index panel to drag it to another index topic. You can click a topic or reference marker once in the panel to select it and then drag it. If you click a second time on a topic it will rename it which you've seen. If you double-click a topic it will insert another reference for that topic at the current cursor position. But you should be able to just drag any topic or reference marker. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro)
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