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InDesign: Indexing Singular and Plural Words

I don’t usually discuss technical writing on my blog, mainly because technical writing is my profession, and I try to spend as little time and energy on my profession outside of work hours. But in this case, I’m working on a side project, and I found a solution to a problem I thought I should share.

Summary

In InDesign, when creating an index, to cross-reference singular and plural words in a single topic, add both the singular and plural words as separate topics, then rename one of the topics to match the other, and the topics will be combined.

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