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How to create a hyperlinked index in Publisher?


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I'm putting a simple song book together - there's a title at the top and the next page or 2 consists of chords and lyrics.  I want an index that lists the song titles and includes hyperlinks to the relevant pages.  I can create an index, and (as a separate exercise) I can hyperlink the index entries.  There are 2 problems (so far)  1/  it's tedious and time consuming (I'd have thought a hyperlinked index would be so popular that creating one would be easy) and 2/ updating the index actually replaces it, and I lose all the hyperlinks.  What's the best way of dealing with this? 

AP, AD & APub user, running Win10

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The index entries are automatically hyperlinked in an exported PDF, as long as you have not disabled inclusion of hyperlinks on the More... dialog.

However:

  • As with TOCs in Publisher, only the page number is linked.
  • Unlike hyperlinks you make yourself, there is no default styling to indicate the presence of a link. You could fix this by editing the Character Style "Index Entry Page Number".

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