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    How do I completed file to server

    I have been creating technical manuals for electronics that involve a lot of pictures. I create a folder where I store the pictures in subfolders by chapter of the manual and place the pictures/link into the manual. My work is freelance and so I do it all on a laptop. When complete, I have to...
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    Index singular, plural, and parts of words

    RustyRover - No, I haven't found an answer to this. I ultimately used InDesign to create the index, marking any instances of a word (Car, car, Cars, cars). Then, I went back and manually combined the page numbers listed under those four headings under one heading (Cars). That was a lot of...
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    Alpha Channel Text Wrap

    I'm writing a technical manual with Hints that appear at the edge of the page. This consists of a Hint graphic that looks like a key with a text box below it. I did a text wrap around the key shaped alpha channel so that the text fits flows around it in the text box. It looks great in...
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    Another Index problem

    I created an index by using the Shift+Alt+Ctrl+[ function to mark each entry that I wanted to index. I then selected 'Add All' to automatically index every occurrence of the word selected. When I generated my index however, I came up with page numbers that were duplicated and out of order...
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    Index singular, plural, and parts of words

    Thanks jmgalvin, but I tried that. I actually printed out every Help file with the word index in it and none of them refer to my actual situation (as best as I can tell). If I do the 'index every occurrence of a word' and use the word cheetah, it will find every occurrence of cheetah, but not...
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    Index singular, plural, and parts of words

    I am a fairly new InDesign user. I have written and indexed many books and manuals in Word. I am creating my first index in InDesign and cannot figure out how to make multiple words fall under one heading. Example: Cheetah, cheetah, and Cheetahs should all fall under one heading: Cheetahs...
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