creating indexes

[diane in seattle]

Hi, I've been working on a multi-book index for a long time. I've always
wanted to use that technique where you create a sort of master index, using a
two-column table. But it has never worked for me.

I use MS-WORD 2000 under VISTA. I love Win2000 more than I've loved any
other version & intend to stick with it, unless there is an indexing feature
in a newer version that will do exactly what I want to do with no
frustrations or imperfections.

So, I'm trying to take an index from one book & then put it in a some kind
of file where I can use the exact terms in the next book, saving myself the
tedium of flagging every single occurrence of the same words.

I hope I'm making sense. I follow the instructions given in the Help
section, but it never works. I suspect it doesn't work because it's written
incorrectly.

If anyone sees fit to answer this, I'll try my best to describe exactly what
I do, what it tells me to do, & what happens.

thanks in advance,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you are describing is a concordance file. Have you read what Word's
Help says about creating one?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/Createindex.htm

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com