If I add a page can I make the index re-calculate page numbers?

[Actonbooks]

Half way through I had a bad feeling. I had not put in the pics into a non-fiction book but had begun indexing as far as page 140. Adding pics means adding pages and will throw out the index page numbers. (The index is necessarily large). Does this mess up the index permanently?  Knowing my luck the answer is yes and so far, there seems to be no way I have discovered to ask the index to rescan the flagged references and amend the page numbers -- which will all change after the first illustrations are in. Maybe I'm being a knucklehead, to use the Walz word of the day. However, if there isn't a simple "press this button", after I put in the pics, then maybe a warning should be written in all caps 48pt extrabold everywhere.

Thanks

[Actonbooks]

New information. Though while I tried to test this by adding more text to a backup copy of the file I saw no change for the time I was looking at the problem. However in the time it took to post the first message, the strangely delayed action slow motion  Publisher has indeed updated. Now it tells me wrongly that the reference word -- the single mention of the  chosen word hippopotamus, occurs on both its original page 281 and its new page 282  as a group, The word is no longer on 281.

[MikeTO]

If you add a page, all of the index numbers after that page will be off by one. Just click the Update icon in the Index panel to update the numbers. If you use Preflight, there will be a Fix button in the panel that you can use, too.

If you do certain index actions including renaming a topic, Publisher will need to update the index and will update the page numbers at the same time. This is why it may feel that sometimes the index updates automatically and other times it doesn't.

[Actonbooks]

Hi and thanks --  but my system is not playing nice.

As I said, I inserted the word hippopotamus to the text on page 281  (the final page). I indexed it. It was the only reference in the book -- and the index (separate new text box on blank master-ed page) showed p281. To simulate what would happen if I added a page or pages or inserted a smaller pic in text to re-align word after it, and needed the index to refresh, I typed in enough text to force the word hippopotamus onto the next created page, numbered from my master as 282. At first, and we are talking many, many  seconds, nothing happened and the reference remained as 281 after update and a preflight fix . Some time and I mean a long time later, I looked once again and the index had updated, stating wrongly that there was a group reference to the word hippopotamus on page 281-282, even though on 281 there was no longer any word hippopotamus .

Just now I deleted the word hippopotamus  from page 282. Thus there was and is no mention of hippopotamus  anywhere in the book, but the index reference now stating on page 281 still exists.

I can live with the delay though it's weird, (and I have discovered other updates are not instant, is it a cloud thing?). But this false indexing is a big problem if I am indexing ghosts.

 

Thanks

Martin

[MikeTO]

Hi Martin, ensure you are working with Text > Index > Show Index Marks selected so that you can see where your index marks are located. You almost certainly had two copies of the index reference (marker) for hippo even though the word itself was no longer on page 281.

Cheers