Is there a workaround for indexing words in captions and text boxes?
How do you index your document?
Have you tried selecting the words and then Insert>Indexes and Tables>Entry...? This is the standard procedure and it wotks for me.
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This answer is for standard indexing. The question refers to words inside captions and text boxes…