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Choose QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Index.
2
Click the Index Marker Color button to display a color picker.
3
Use the sliders, arrows, fields, or color wheel to specify a color for the index markers.
4
Click OK to close the color picker; then click OK to close the Index Preferences dialog
box.
When you index a range of text, it is marked with brackets. When you place the Text
Insertion bar in text and enter an index entry, the location is marked with a box.
Creating index entries
Each item in an index, whether it is one word or several, is called an entry. Each entry
is assigned a level. Levels indicate the hierarchy of the entry, from first to fourth. First
level entries are the most general, and fourth level entries are the most specific.
QuarkXPress lets you create four levels of index entries in a nested index and two levels
of index entries in a run-in index.
Creating a first-level index entry
A first-level index entry is a primary topic sorted alphabetically in an index.
Before you start adding words to the index, you need to decide whether you are creating
a nested index or a run-in index. A nested index has up to four levels of information
with entries separated by paragraph returns and different style sheets. A run-in index
has two levels of information with second level entries immediately following first-level
entries in the same paragraph.
1
Place the Text Insertion bar in the text or select a range of text to establish the
beginning of the text you want to index.
2
To enter text for the first-level entry in the Text field of the Index palette (View menu),
select text in the document or type in the field.
3
To override the alphabetical indexing of the entry, enter text in the Sort As field. For
example, if the entry is "20th Century," you might want it sorted as "Twentieth
Century." This does not affect the spelling of the index entry.
4
Choose First Level from the Level drop-down menu.
5
To override the default character formatting applied to a page number or cross-reference,
choose another character style sheet from the Style drop-down menu. The default
formatting is the character style of the entry text.
6
Choose an option from the Scope drop-down menu to specify the range of text the
index entry covers.
7
Click the Add button on the Index palette; the first-level index entry is listed
alphabetically in the Entries list. The indexed text is marked with brackets or a box
in the document. You can also click the Add All button to add all occurrences of
the selected text to the Entries list.
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