How do I conflate index page numbers in Word 203?

[PaulK]

John McGhie, in "How do I generate an index in Word?" gives one way to mark
multiple pages for the index :
"If you place the same index tag on each page of the topic, Word will
automatically conflate the page numbers."

My index results do not reflect this. Instead they put every page # with a
comma between. I'm aware of the bookmark option, but would like to know if
this other way conflates the numbers.


Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, it does not. John is mistaken.

 

[grammatim]

The other day someone was looking for stuff FrameMaker does better
than Word wrt indexes and cross references -- this is one of them. You
can have it compress page ranges like this.

Unfortunately no one seems to have implemented Chicago style for page
ranges:

233-46
233-38
507-9
500-509

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is even Chicago still using this style? I get the impression everyone is
spelling everything out now:

233-246
233-238
507-509
500-509

 

[grammatim]

Nah, computer-generated indexes are spelling everything out. (I always
spell out life dates -- "George Washington (1732-99)" looks
disrespectful.)

And I really dislike the super-compressed European style:

233-8
500-9

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It may seem disrespectful to abbreviate life dates, but Chicago doesn't seem
to make any exception for them; it does make an exception for inclusive
dates in titles of books.

There can be problems where consistency is desired. Rotary years run from
July through June, so they were always 1997-98, 1998-99, and so on. When the
year reached 2000, RI apparently didn't know how to handle it, and you see
1999-00, 2000-01, etc. I ended up having to follow this plan in listing our
past presidents on the outside of the bulletin just because there isn't room
for a longer form.