Deleting all the codes for Tables

[Christopher Yip]

I am writing a thesis using Word (bad idea?). I have never
used a TOC, TOA or index before. After toying around and
looking through the Help, I seem to have gotten it. There
are still some things I haven't figured out like getting
the Author's name to appear in the index in the format
Surname, Initials.

But that aside, I want to find out how do I quickly delete
all the codes embedded in the text to start again. I saw
in a post here:

For TOC: do a search and replace for ^19 TA

what about:

TOA?
Index?

Appreciate any help.

Christopher

 

[Greg Maxey]

Christopher,


Use

^19 TOA
^19 XE
^19 TA
^19 INDEX
^19 TOC

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Greg has given you all you need, but a slight correction to your original
post: ^19 TA removes the TA codes used to create a Table of Authorities (TOA
field). To remove TC fields, you'd need ^19 TC, but most TOCs don't use TC
fields (they're generated from outline levels/heading styles).

To answer your question about index entries, they will display whatever the
XE field contains. If a name appears in the document as, for example, C. S.
Lewis, you can't just select that name and press Alt+Shift+X and
automatically get what you want. You have to edit the content of the field,
changing it to "Lewis, C. S." If you have several Lewises, you may want to
use subentries, in which case you put "Lewis" as the main entry and "C. S."
as the subentry, which gives you an { XE Lewis:C. S." } field.