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Word includes a feature that allows you to automatically create an index for your document. How you create the actual index is explained in a different tip, but first you must insert index entries throughout your document. These entries are used by Word to pull together the information that is placed in the index. To create an index entry, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Mark Index Entry dialog box.
Word also allows you to create index subentries. These are index entries that are subordinate to other index entries, and generally appear indented under the main index entry. To insert an index subentry, follow these steps:
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2016-12-15 18:49:44
James
Dear Allen,
I'm preparing a glossary in Filemaker, and will export it somehow to Word. One reason is that there are many things that need to be included in an index. If it is necessary to mark every one individually in Word, I will.
But I was hoping that I could set this automatically in FM before exporting. I was going to program FM to add {XE ...}. But a brace is not character, rather a field code in Word.
I considered underlining the target words in FM, and then in Word replacing underlined words with { XE... }.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
2015-03-05 16:23:54
Cassandra Brown
I would like to know how to use a table to generate an index in Word 2013
2014-09-04 17:05:06
Gail
I began an index for my document yesterday, but today I can't see where I stopped, because the bracketed index entries are not visible. How can I make them appear again? Thank you
2013-05-02 01:28:12
sushil
hello sir,
i have a some pages of e books which i am not making these pages in m.s. word. please tell me how we can make that page in m.s. word.
thank you
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