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Word provides the tools for you to create complete indexes for your documents. After creating all the index entries, as described in other WordTips, you might decide later to remove an index entry. To do this, follow these general steps:
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2017-10-14 04:28:00
Yusof
This ddeletes the text, not just the indexing..wow!!!!!!! LOL
2014-11-30 23:06:59
Jaafar
Hi Rick and Graham Mayor,
Thanks for the notes.
^d XE will remove all.
How about to remove specific entry?
Cheers.
2014-05-30 06:39:03
How do I delete all index items in one operation?
2012-11-12 18:12:04
Rick
NB regarding my previous post, the method described removes ALL words/phrases from the index. I'm not sure how to remove multiple copies of one entry, but knowing would be useful.
2012-11-12 17:54:07
Rick
With XE fields displayed, open Find and Replace.
In Find field enter ^d XE
leave Replace field blank.
[with thanks to Graham Mayor]
2012-11-06 18:26:46
Derek
I followed the directions to delete an entry, but this method is cumbersome. Is it possible to work directly from the index and delete a word and all its references with one command? I am using Word 2007.
This would be an elegant solution.
2012-11-04 18:54:51
Jeff
That works fine for one instance of the word being indexed, but what if I have "music" indexed 150 times in a document? Is there a way to remove all instances of the word "music" from the index at once?
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