Dear Karen: I am quite familiar with this problem. The problem arises since FM can and does create two or more reference pages which on first sight deal with Index Specifications. This arises I think because of multiple format imports. The result is that one or more of these Index Specification pages are "dead". By dead I mean they have no effect on the target text. There are two workarounds. One is to delete the dead reference pages. Usually the live Index Specification is on the last reference page. If you working from the start page onwards it is likely that you are editing dead index specifications and all you have to do is find the" real" Index Specification. The second workaround is to go to the last page of the reference pages and there edit your format, leaving the dead index specifications in situ. This is the lazy option...Ok if you are working alone. I do not understand at all why TOC and Index Specs do not have their own dedicated tables as is the practice throughout the reference page range. Such tables would be stable and allow for editing as does the well-designed master page determination table.
It is a good idea of course to fix your template file first otherwise you will forever be importing dead Index Specifications, but notice that importing the corrected Index specifications does not solve the problem as the reference pages are not automatically overwritten. Only named reference pages are overwritten. The answer here is to create blank reference page in your template file with the same name as those pages you wish to get rid of. I hope this rambling helps. Rob *************************
