Index Topic markers have gone invisible.

Hello,



I have a document that refuses to show the Index Topic markers. I have tried exporting the document to INX and back to .indd but that didn't help. Show hidden characters (Alt+Ctrl+I) is enabled but the markers do not show up in the usual layout view or in the story editor. I can see that the entries are really there by looking at Index palette, but this is a PITA because it makes it difficult to tell what text has been marked as a topic and what hasn't.



I also tried deleting all the entries, copying the entire story, pasting it into a new document, and adding new entries. Strangely enough, that didn't work either.



WinXP SP2

Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz

1.5GB RAM

InDesign CS2 version 4.0.5
Index Topic markers have gone invisible.
Make sure you aren't in Preview mode or overprint preview mode.
Index Topic markers have gone invisible.
Mode is set to ''Normal''.

Do the other hidden characters show up? If not, you might be in

overprint preview mode.



Bob

That probably wouldn't be the problem anyway because the markers are not showing up in the story editor, just in the Index palette. More of a PITA because it's Turkish text that I'm working with and I don't speak/read Turkish. :/

%26gt;Do the other hidden characters show up?



Yes, everything else shows up. Even the text threads.

Looks like I'm going to have to copy all of the text to notepad and back to a new ID doc. I will have to apply the paragraph styles manually, drop in the graphics and everything. Probably the fastest solution at this point.



Thanks for trying anyway.

D'oh! You are not going to believe this... it wasn't working because in the Index Palette, I had the ''Topic'' radio button enabled instead of ''Reference''. That's all there was to it. *sigh* I should have known that.