long document index with heading text?

[Christoph Lutz]

Hi,

I have a long document of songs. All song titles are "heading 1"s. I
have created a TOC for the songs, all done by alphabet. I now want to
add some other useful indexes to the document like index by topic or
season etc. giving me the titles of the songs (i.e. not the page
numbers) Is it possible?

I have played around with the XE fields and the index field for the
actual index but I can't see how it can be done. I can get an index that
says "topic 1" and then lists the page numbers but I would like it to
actually give me the titles of the song - without having to re-enter
them all. I could do XE topic 1:song title , XE topic 1:song title2 I
guess but that is very tedious....

Any ideas much appreciated

Thanks

Christoph

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It seems to me that you have to identify each song manually regardless.
Since you don't care about the page numbers, it doesn't sound like you
really need Word to be able to auto-update these lists. So why not just
copy and paste the song titles manually into the correct area? As the
document changes, you'd need to add the correct XE field anyhow--will it
be any more difficult to just copy and paste?

Alternatively, since you don't want page numbers, I also suspect that a
custom TOC is more the way to go than messing with indexes, especially
since Word gives you a lot more ability to manipulate the TOC than the
index. You might find some tips here:
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/TOCTips.htm

For instance, the section "TOC entries that don’t appear in the
document" discusses TC fields, where you can pick the level and a table
identifier. You might then build the Table of Topics out of the level,
and the Table of Seasons out of the table identifier. You might need to
create a different TC field for each table you want the song title
included in, I'm not sure whether one TC field can have two identifiers.

Some relevant Help topics: "Create multiple tables of contents in a
document" and search on "TC field"