InDesign: Workarounds for Indexing Bug (macOS)

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Bug

If you regularly use InDesign for indexing you might be aware of a long-standing bug whereby having used the entry type "For Next No. of Pages" entries made afterwards using the shortcut of dragging out a topic to the new entry icon at the bottom of the Indexing window, or created using an alt-click of the new entry icon repeats the same page range no matter how many times you open and reset to "Current Page" and then keeps repeating this behaviour.

Workaround

To reset the Indexing shortcuts and make them forget the page range do the following:
  1. Use shortcut in usual way.
  2. When extended page range appears open the entry, select "Current Page" and press OK.
  3. You'll notice that the page range doesn't immediately update and remains as a range.
  4. Do not press the sync button, instead re-open the entry and press OK again.
You should now be able to use the indexing shortcuts as normal (until the next entry of a page range, after which you'll need to repeat the steps).


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