Need help--Two problems setting up a book index in Word 2003

[Alison]

I have two problems I cannot solve in creating a book index in Word 2003.

First, the index contains several terms of art shown with single quotation
marks -- e.g., 'Big Bang'. Word sees the quotation mark first and sets these
terms off in their own area, rather than within (in this example) the 'B'
list.

Second, an index entry may have several subentries, but an additional 'see
also' (example: financial parity, see also interest rates). Word will not
place the 'see also' at the end of the subentry list on its own line, but
only next to the main term itself. (Note that I am not talking about the
straightforward 'see' cross-reference, where the reader is referred to a
different term or abbreviation.)

This is frustrating and any help will be appreciated! I will have Word 2007
(in the hope that Microsoft may have improved some of this stuff!) as soon as
I get a Windows 7 computer, but this book must be done in 2003.

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Alison

I have two problems I cannot solve in creating a book index in Word 2003.

First, the index contains several terms of art shown with single quotation
marks -- e.g., 'Big Bang'. Word sees the quotation mark first and sets these
terms off in their own area, rather than within (in this example) the 'B'
list.

why would you want to include the quotation marks in the index entry? I
don't think this is common, nor necessary.

Second, an index entry may have several subentries, but an additional 'see
also' (example: financial parity, see also interest rates). Word will not
place the 'see also' at the end of the subentry list on its own line, but
only next to the main term itself. (Note that I am not talking about the
straightforward 'see' cross-reference, where the reader is referred to a
different term or abbreviation.)

[..]

I don't think I can follow entirely. Could you paste the complete TOC
field code you are using, as well as the XE field code for such an entry?

Greetinx
Robert