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Rick,

Here's (a variant of) a script that I sometimes use to deal with indexes. Its output is an array of strings of topics followed by their page numbers. Topics and numbers are separated by // so you can find them easily. Subtopics are separated by #. So you get something like this:

Basque//1, 2, 3, 4
Romance#Italian//1, 2, 3, 4

Peter



#target indesign;

rough_index = manual_index (app.activeDocument);

function manual_index (doc) 
   { 
   var indexx = []; 
   t = app.activeDocument.indexes[0].allTopics; 
   for (i = 0; i < t.length; i++) 
      { 
      prefs = t[i].pageReferences.everyItem().getElements(); 
      if (prefs.length > 0) 
         { 
         topic = topic_path (t[i], t[i].name); 
         pages = find_pages (prefs); 
         indexx.push (topic + '//' + pages) 
         } 
      } 
   return indexx 
   }

function topic_path (top, str) 
   { 
   if (top.parent.constructor.name == 'Index') 
      return str; 
   else 
      return topic_path (top.parent, top.parent.name + '#' + str) 
   }

function find_pages (page_refs) 
   { 
   var temp = []; 
   for (var i = 0; i < page_refs.length; i++) 
      { 
      try {temp.push (page_refs[i].sourceText.parentTextFrames[0].parent.name)} 
      catch (_){} 
      } 
   return temp.join (', ') 
   }