Index reports

The Index report provides information about your index, including index file keywords, topic keywords and the relationships between keywords and topics. To generate the report output, the program gathers information from topic and keyword properties.

You can generate different information by selecting from the following:

Report:

Customizing the Index report

You can select which type of keyword you want to appear in the report.

Show:

In addition, you can view parts of your index by selecting a specific folder from the Folder list.

Note: Filtering by author is not available with the current version.

Tips:

  • Use the Keywords only format to proofread your keywords and keyword phrases for consistency, grammar and spelling. Share this report with other authors so they can follow your standards when creating indexes in their projects.

  • Use the Keywords and topics format to compare topics and identify keywords that require additional topics. You can also quickly find out if keywords are not linked to any topics in this format and identify topics to remove from keywords.

  • Use the Topics and keywords format to compare how topics use keywords for thoroughness and consistency. You can quickly find out if topics are missing keywords or if phrasing is inconsistent. This format also enables you to identify keywords that you want to remove from topics.