User-defined Index Errors: 1 entry/page, gray page

[Zoomiest]

I am trying to set up a user-defined index within Writer for outstanding stories within a large family history book I am writing. User-defined indexes used to work earlier, but now I get some bad output when my index generates:

• One entry per PAGE

• Entire page is gray.

• I can’t control this. It doesn’t seem to be able to be changed.

I saw another reference to this problem dated 2014(!), and they called it a bug. Is this not fixed yet? Is there a known way to work around this problem?

Other things I am trying: This document is going to be published as an E-book, so I have pulled out the page numbers out of the Index output, by selecting and deleting the # sign in define index structure tab.

How can I get this index to work?

[Hrbrgr]

Dear @Zoomiest ,

unfortunately, your information is somewhat vague and imprecise.
It is impossible to isolate a problem with this information.

If you want to try to get to the bottom of the matter, here are the FAQ on the subject of the index:

Index / Table of Contents / Alphabetical Index / Bibliography

Here is the general documentation:

English documentation | LibreOffice Documentation - Your documentation for LibreOffice

and the Online-help:

The LibreOffice Help Window

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Thanks

[ajlittoz]

With only this vague description, here are some clues:

• one entry per page: look at the Text Flow tab of the paragraph style used to format the entries. There is likely a forced page break there
• entire page is gray: this means contents is auto-generated (not resulting from user’s direct entry); therefore standard behaviour
• I can’t control …: look at the used styles