Pages still not allowing creating an index in a document?

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Pages still not allowing creating an index in a document?

It's amazing that MS Word allows Index handling since version 5 (for Windows 3.11) allowing automatic alphabetic sort of titles listed, and Pages does not allow this -rather simple- issue...

Seems like Apple boys and gals never use an index... they don't know what it is.

Now that Apple finally accepted adopting others inventions (like the *phablet* sized phones) maybe they can add this feature to Pages for people who need it?

Just wandering... 🙂

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Mar 3, 2018 6:50 AM

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Mar 3, 2018 10:54 AM in response to Eugenio Grigorjev

Just wondering?

If you absolutely must have indexing, then look elsewhere than Pages, because there is an opportunity cost of wishing for what is not coming.

Pages was, is, and shall ever be designed as a consumer product — devoid of costly professional business market features such as indexing, and a host of other features that you can readily find in MS Word, the free LibreOffice, and other Mac market word processing applications. Pages was never intended for professional grade use, or to compete/clone Word functionality. The really frustrated people are those that attempted to use it otherwise.

MS Word got indexing decades ago, because Microsoft's primary customer requirements came from corporations, and the very large business revenue stream funded the corporate incentive, and engineering resources that progressively added indexing, and all the other business grade features found in Word today.

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