Open Press.book from the Lesson12 folder. (You won’t be saving copies of the sample files in this lesson. If you want to start over, you can get fresh copies of the files from the CD-ROM.)

The book contains a table of contents (PressTOC.fm), a preface (Preface.fm), and three chapters (Chapter1.fm, Chapter2.fm, and Chapter3.fm).

Select Chapter3.fm in the book file because you want the index to follow the last chapter in the book.

Choose Add > Standard Index.

The dialog box that appears is already set up for a standard index.

Make sure that Create Hypertext Links is selected so that FrameMaker 7.0 will include a hypertext link with each index entry. You’ll use this feature later to display the source of an index entry by clicking the entry’s page number. Click Add.

The index filename (PressIX.fm) appears in the Update Book dialog box. The filename is based on the book’s name (IX indicates that the file is an index.) The PressIX.fm file doesn’t actually exist until FrameMaker 7.0 generates it (meaning that FrameMaker 7.0 gathers and sorts the markers of type Index into the index file). Click Update.

Messages appear in the status bar at the bottom of the book window as FrameMaker 7.0 scans each file in the book. After a few moments, the index appears.