Index - Getting Chapter & Page Number .... IT JUST WON'T WORK!!

[cates2]

I have a large document (160 pages) that has multiple chapters and the
numbering within each chapter includes both the chapter and page number
(e.g., 2-1). The chapters are numbered using the \s chapter switch.

In the TOC, I use the \s chapter switch and it works fine. In the header and
footer, I use the same switch, and it too works fine. BUT, when i use the
switch to generate the index, it doesn't work. I just get a page number with
each entry.

I have had other documents in which the switch works for some chapters but
not others. I have even copied the Index "field" from a document in which it
did work, only to find that it didn't work in this document!

I've searched the message boards but haven't found any mention of this
"problem" by other users. Soooo, either I'm doing something wrong or my docs
are to wacko for Word to handle.

Any thoughts, ideas, comments, tips, or tricks would be greatly appreciated
- - - other than the obvious one of numbering the pages straight through!!
THANKS

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It sure sounds like you're doing everything right. I don't have any personal
experience with this switch, but I do some experience with indexes, and in
my experience they can be very flaky. It may just be one of those cases
where you have to insert the field at the right phase of the moon and twitch
your nose just right to get it to work.

If you include chapter numbers with your page numbers using the built-in
method (as described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ChapterNumber.htm, but note that you
don't need to turn of Same as Previous for this to work), do the chapter
numbers show up in the index without requiring a switch (as they do in the
TOC)?

 

[cates2]

Thanks for the info and reference to the mvps.org site.

Yes, that does work for both the TOC and the index. So apparently, there
must be some issue with using the \s switch for indexes.

It's so late in the game with this particular document that it will take too
much time to make all the necessary style and numbering modifications (due
date tomorrow!). I'll just add the chapter numbers by hand. In the future
though - if I have a client who wants the pages numbered within each chapter
- I'll use this "new" approach from the get-go!!

THANKS AGAIN! Cate