EASY! Auto Bold Nested Style in Glossary/Index • InDesign

Have you got a 15-page glossary or index that you REALLY don't feel like styling? Perhaps the keywords didn't come pre-styled and now YOU'VE got to do it? Save time and use nested styles! Don't manually apply bold to all those suckers!
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Placing the Word Doc
1:10 - The Slow Way
1:25 - Making a New Character Style
2:40 - Paragraph Style
3:00 - Nested Styles Tab
3:30 - New Nested Style
4:15 - Tell InDesign What to Target (:)
4:45 - Bold THROUGH the Colon
5:00 - Done!
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[@rasikaum6572]

Great, Thank you sis

[@yvankamdem4281]

Thanks. I really needed these tips

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No problem!

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[@ShubiDubiYouTubi]

Great, thank you!

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[@jaanunlimited17]

Great tutorial

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[@viniciuscapuano2272]

Thanks, It will help a lot

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Glad it helped!

[@WebFanNY]

@Becky’s Graphic Design the primary text frame video introduced me to the Index, which I didn't know I wanted, and to this great tutorial, and I had to subscribe! I'm adding index pages now to my preset book templates. Thanks for making this so easy to understand.

[@beckysgraphicdesign]

Thanks for sharing! Awesome!

[@TheChriskas]

Hi , greetings from Poland, it s about how to built an index I know it s not the aim of this tutorial , i m looking for some help, I would like to add an index to my document / book , an index with names example David Nowak (1910 *1925) the issue is when i add him it sorts by his first name and not his last name.. I would like to keep first last name but not in sort ... i guess there s something I should do ? would you please help ? thanks, kind regards

[@beckysgraphicdesign]

Unfortunately, InDesign has a terrible built-in function for Indexing. It is very archaic. We often end up outsourcing the indexing to another company. I have heard of a few paid-for InDesign scripts that do a better job of indexing.

[@TheChriskas]

@@beckysgraphicdesign Hi greetings from Poland, thanks for reply, :-)