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Hi there! In this video we’ll 
be learning about creating an  

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index in InDesign, so let’s get started.

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I’m using the same document, I used in the last 
session, except now, I have randomly added a few  

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words to facilitate our index creation. Let’s 
first show the index panel, and for that,  

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go to window, and then type & tables, and 
select index. Let me put this panel aside,  

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and let me zoom in as well. Alright, now you 
see this word ‘Tokyo.’ That’s going to be part  

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of our index, and I have added it on different 
pages as well, so with the word highlighted,  

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click the small plus button at the bottom of the 
index panel, to create an index. You’ll find the  

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word sitting there already, so just hit ‘add all’, 
and it shall add all the instances of the word  

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‘Tokyo’ in the document, to the index, and then 
hit done. Now let’s select another word ‘Sydney’,  

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and repeat the process of adding it to the index. 
Ensure that you always click ‘add all’, and not  

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‘add’, because if you click ‘add’, it will only 
add that one instance of the highlighted word.  

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Similarly, let’s add ‘Munich’ to 
our index, and I think I have one  

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more word here somewhere. It’s here, it’s 
‘Istanbul’, so let’s quickly add this as well.

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If you scroll through the index, 
you will find the added words,  

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along with the page numbers they occur on.

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It’s time to generate the index, and for that, 
I’ll have to add another page, from the pages  

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panel, so click the small plus button at the 
bottom of the pages panel, to create a new page,  

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and then go to the page. Let’s minimize our 
pages panel here, and to generate the index,  

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click this icon, which is to the left of the plus 
button, at the bottom of the index panel, and a  

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popup notification will appear, from where you can 
add a title to your index. We’ll keep it as it is,  

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and hit okay. The moment you hit okay, the cursor 
will be loaded, so take it to the top left corner  

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of your index page, and drag it, much like you 
drag a text box, and the index shall be displayed.

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Now when you examine the paragraph styles panel, 
you’ll find three styles added automatically.  

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‘Index Level 1’ style is the one applied to the 
names here. ‘Index Title’ is the main heading,  

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and ‘Index Section Head’ is the 
heading applied to the ‘index level 1’.  

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Although these styles are applied to the index, 
they’re still in the default setup, hence we  

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need to style them. So let’s double-click ‘index 
title’, and then go to ‘basic character formats,  

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and change the font to ‘Museo Sans.’ 
Also update the font style to 700,  

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and hit okay. Now double-click ‘index level 
1’, and move to ‘basic character formats’,  

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and change the font to ‘Museo Sans’, 
and font style to 500, and hit okay.  

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Lastly, double-click the ‘index section head’, and 
move to ‘basic character formats’, and update the  

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font to ‘Museo Sans’, and font style to 500. 
Let’s switch to the ‘character color’ tab,  

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and change the color to red, and then hit 
okay, and now the index is styled as well.

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Let’s hit the shortcut Command J on a Mac, or Ctrl 
J on a PC, and enter 1, for page 1, to go to the  

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first page. Now let’s say, I remove the word 
‘ Tokyo’ from this paragraph, and another word  

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‘Munich’ from the paragraph on the right. Once 
you have deleted instances of your index words,  

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you need to go to the index panel, and click 
this small button, that says ‘update preview.’

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Hey, but we just clicked it! Why has nothing 
happened to my index? That’s because that has just  

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updated the preview on my index panel, so when you 
go to the index panel to check the word ‘Munich’,  

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you see, now it just shows to be existing on 
page 3 here. So to have the update reflect  

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on our index, we need to generate the index once 
again, so let’s click the ‘generate index’ button,  

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and in the popup notification, ensure that 
the ‘replace existing index’ box is checked,  

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and hit okay. You’ll find that page 1 
has been removed from the word ‘Munich.’

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But didn’t we also remove 
the word ‘Tokyo’ from page 1?  

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Then why is it still showing? Let’s jump to 
page 1 to find out, and to jump to page 1,  

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we need to hit the shortcut Command J on a Mac, 
or Ctrl J on a PC, and then enter 1, and hit okay.

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You see, although we deleted the word ‘Tokyo’ 
from the first paragraph, the word is still there  

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on this page, but somewhere else. It is sitting 
here, in this paragraph, hence showing on our  

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index page, so be wary of a situation like 
this, to avoid any unnecessary confusions.

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Alright guys! That concludes our 
session. I hope you’ve enjoyed it,  

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so I’m going to see you in the 
next one, in just a bit. Good bye!