Indexing

[Joanne]

I was wondering how difficult it would be to use VB or VBA
to create an index automatically of all words in a Word
document followed by a list of page numbers where the word
occurs? I would also want to be able to bypass a list of
the more common words. Has anyone ever tried to tackle
such a project? It sounds like it might be a pretty big
programming job. I am just starting to think about it. I
am just looking for some general comments here, either to
tell me it would be difficult to do or perhaps just
pointing me in the right direction. Thanks.

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Joanne

I was wondering how difficult it would be to use VB or VBA
to create an index automatically of all words in a Word
document followed by a list of page numbers where the word
occurs? I would also want to be able to bypass a list of
the more common words. Has anyone ever tried to tackle
such a project? It sounds like it might be a pretty big
programming job. I am just starting to think about it. I
am just looking for some general comments here, either to
tell me it would be difficult to do or perhaps just
pointing me in the right direction. Thanks.

Take a look at this article

How can I automatically generate an index in Word?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/Createindex.htm