Index Entry Limit

[Dr. Joy Cauffman]

We are in the process of creating an index for a medical
publication that I've worked on.

It seems that we've gone beyond the limit of characters
that a marked index entry can accomodate. And we have not
been able to locate documentation on the character length
limit for an index entry in the field code.

We'd appreciate your reply at your earliest convenience.
Thank you.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The total number of fields permissible in a document is 32,000. I doubt that
you've exceeded that limit. I don't find any reference for the number of
characters in a field, but here are a few otherfield-related limits:

Number of general switches in a field
10
Number of field-specific switches in a field
10
Number of nesting levels for fields
20

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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[Jay Freedman]

The KnowledgeBase article at http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=211489 lists
the documented limits for Word 2000. There's a similar article for Word 97;
I don't think one was published for Word 2002, but it should be the same as
2000.

The article doesn't state any limit for the length of an index entry field
or, for that matter, any field code. Can you estimate how many characters
you can include before they're truncated?