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Change font size and line spacing in the index

Anonymous
2014-10-22T04:33:46+00:00

I was reducing the font size and line spacing in my indexes (to save space) manually after the indexes were created. Then I noticed that the next indexes had wrong odd-page headers. If I don't change the font size and line spacing, the headers are OK. So what I need is a way to create the index with a smaller font size and line spacing than usual. I tried setting their defaults but it made no difference. And I don't see a field code that does it. (I normally use {XE \F "B" \c 2} for my B-type index entries; B can also be G, J, N, R, and S.)

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Steve

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Suzanne S Barnhill 277.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2014-10-22T21:14:46+00:00

The styles used in the index itself are Index 1 (for top-entries), Index 2 (for subentries), and so forth. It is those styles that you need to modify.

But what I had forgotten was that the index styles (by default) are set to update automatically, so just modifying one instance of any given style would change the formatting for all instances and for the style itself.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-22T16:35:03+00:00

    I was direct-formatting the generated index.  I don't see how to change the line spacing in the index by setting something in the XE field style. Presumably the style affects only the XE field and not the generated index. Or am I wrong?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-22T16:31:28+00:00

    I inspected the section breaks. They look OK (except for my not understanding where Continuous section breaks are needed). The page headers are wrong only on the odd pages. The even page headers are correct. I'll look at the Section breaks again.

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-10-22T13:08:27+00:00

    Are you changing the font size and line spacing by modifying the Index 1, Index 2, etc., styles? Or by direct formatting of the generated text (which would be undone by updating the index)?

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-10-22T08:51:59+00:00

    For the initial problem, it is possible that you had a misplaced Even or Odd page section break as changing the font size and line spacing would not have caused that problem.

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