Indexing a document

[David S.]

Hello,

I have a client who has laid out a 500 page directory in
word (3 columns per page). He needs to create an index
of names and where they appear in the directory. It
seems like a good Access function but I'm not sure how to
proceed. I appreciate any ideas you may have. Thanks so
much.

David

 

[John Nurick]

Hi David,

Assuming you mean the kind of index that is printed on paper at the end
of a book, I don't think that Access will be much help.

The obvious thing to do is to use Word's own indexing system. There's a
very good article on it by John McGhie, who's a technical writing boffin
and Word guru, at http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/Createindex.htm .
Probably what you need in this instance is a "concordance index".