But in my index, I want to include not just the plural “obligations” but also singular “obligation”.<\/p>\n Will changing the reference to “obligation” work? Does\u00a0InDesign perform a partial word match to include both “obligation” and “obligations”?<\/p>\n No. This doesn’t work. InDesign searches on the whole word when adding topics. It doesn’t perform a partial word match. The result is that only the word “obligation” is added.<\/p>\n And the results don’t even include the word on the page I had selected. So I select the word “obligations” again, open the Index > New cross-reference<\/strong> dialog, and click Add All<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Now I have both “obligation” and “obligations in my Index Preview, but they are separate entries. When I generate my index, they will appear as separate entries, which is not ideal.<\/p>\n What to do?<\/p>\n After trying various methods for combining the two topics, I stumbled on the solution. I say stumbled because the solution was not an obvious or intuitive option presented in InDesign.<\/p>\n Double-click the “obligations” topic to open Topic Options, change it to “obligation” and click OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n Since both topics are now the same word, InDesign will automatically combine both topics into one.<\/p>\n And now the word “obligations” on the page I was looking at has been indexed.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1-Unindexed-Text.png?ssl=1\")
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