How do you index an term containing quotes?

[baobob]

I'm trying to learn indexing in Word 2002.

My doc names e.g.:

Ted "The Splendid Splinter" Williams

I want to index that name, but:

Ted "The Splendid Splinter" Williams{XE "Williams, Ted "The Splendid
Splinter""}

does not work because the quotes around "The Splendid Splinter" are
the same symbol as the quotes in {XE ""}.

How do you index a term containing quotes?

Thanks.

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[Peter T. Daniels]

I don't promise that this will work, but in other contexts when a
character is to be taken as a real character and not as a control
character, type a backslash before it.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There are also workarounds using the QUOTE field, but a common, simple
workaround is to use two single quotes instead of a double quote (won't look
quite the same, but you may be able to live with it). There's a useful
article on index problems generally, with this particular issue discussed at
http://taxonomist.tripod.com/indexing/wordproblems.html#escapes.

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

I don't promise that this will work, but in other contexts when a
character is to be taken as a real character and not as a control
character, type a backslash before it.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

(So the backslash guess was correct.) Shouldn't that page have been
proofread before it was posted?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No doubt. I didn't read it all, but there are very few pages online that
wouldn't benefit from proofreading/copyediting.

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

(So the backslash guess was correct.) Shouldn't that page have been
proofread before it was posted?

 

[baobob]

Peter, Suzanne:

Belatedly ... thanks -very- much for replies.

<backslash><symbol> works.

In point of fact, there are at least -two- characters which Word will
choke on if encountered in an {XE} index entry.

- Double quote.

- Colon. If you spell a simple colon, not <backslash><colon>, the
string gets split and everything after the colon is made into a new,
indented index entry.

I will have more questions about indexing -- just learning; many
problems -- and I am afraid, bugs, in Word 2002.

Thanks again.

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