Need assistance with creating an index for an existing document.

[Louise]

After marking the index entries and attempting to insert the index at the
beginning of the document, the result gives me a phrase and title from the
last page. These are not one of my marked entries nor does it give me any of
my marked entries.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Louise

How are you inserting the Index - and is it an index you mean and want, or a
table of contents?

How have you marked your entries?

(Indexes don't normally appear at the beginning of a document but at the
end. They are alphabetical lists of the terms you have marked with XE
fields. TOCs on the other hand are lists of headings in the order they
appear in the document. They can be generated from Heading styles, outline
levels, or TC fields.)

 

[Louise]

Thanks for responding. I'll tell you exactly what I did.

I have an existing document which I want to create an index for. I
highlighted the word, went into INSERT, INDEX, and MARK ENTRY. The
highlighted work appears in the Main Entry box and I hit the MARK tab. I did
this throughout the document. Where do I go from there?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If it's an index you really want, after you've marked all the entries, you
need to insert the index itself. In the place where you want the index to
appear, use Insert | Index. On the Index tab, select any options you want to
change, then click OK.

In technical terms, the index entries are XE fields. The index itself is an
INDEX field.