A bug has come to light in Adobe InDesign CS3 that affects the generation of indexes for Books. A Book is a collection of InDesign documents (typically representing individual chapters) that share common attributes such as consecutive automatic page numbering, a table of contents and an index. Unfortunately, users have noted that the index generated by CS3 from a Book tends to miss out certain words and phrases, even though they might be clearly listed and referenced in the Index palette.
The following link takes you to an Adobe forum where this has been discussed at some length, and includes a workaround involving running a free script (from Olav Kvern, no less) to combine your Book into a single InDesign document so that the index can be generated correctly.
www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc3c645?14
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