Re: Advice on using Word to generate index

[DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com]

Maggie Secara wrote:
<snip>
> I don't think you mean this.  If the paragraph is bold
> (like a heading or a caption) the index entry will be
> bold. If it's italic, the index entry will be italic. 
> that's surely not what you want.  If I'm indexing a
> term in a heading, I put the index mark on another
> line that's regular text font.  They're all invisible
> anyway, so as long as it's on the right page, it's no
> problem.
</snip>

It's a little intimidating to disagree with She-For-Whom-The-Final-Paragraph-Deletion-Method-Was-Named, but with all due respect, I must.

In my very humble experience, index entries from marks inserted in a properly style-formatted paragraph will *not* acquire the text attributes of the paragraph.

One advantage of putting the index mark directly on the heading lines, especially if you base your index extensively on headings, is that you can review your marks in Outline view.

Dan Goldstein


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