Creating an Index from a merged field

[Krista M]

I wanted to know if it's possible to create an index for a
merged field from access. I'm creating a directory and
need one field to be indexed in word. Is this even
possible?

Any help would be great. Thanks.

Krista

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Yes, { XE } fields survive the merge, so you can nest a mergefield inside an
{ XE } field, send the output to a new document then generate an Index base
don the XE fields - e.g.

{ XE "{ MERGEFIELD IndexText }" }

where all the {} are the special field code braces you can insert with
ctrl-F9

 

[Krista]

Peter,

Thank you sooo much! It worked beautifully.

Krista