Page numbering anomaly in index

[bbuntain]

I am working with a large Word document (330 pages) that is set up as
a master document with subdocuments. At the end there are a set of
four indexes--Geographical, People, Source, and Topical. I just
starting seeing an anomaly in one of the indexes that I cannot explain
and do not know how to correct--the page numbers are out of sequence.
For example, one entry looks like this:

[Source entry], 93, 145–46, 145, 108, 150, 152, 45, 150, 153, 149,
156, 79, 156

The codes for the index are as follows:

{ INDEX \f "S" \z "1033" }

I am using Microsoft Word 2002 (10.6843.6839) SP3.

Any suggestions?

Bill Buntain

 

[Peter A]

I am working with a large Word document (330 pages) that is set up as
a master document with subdocuments. At the end there are a set of
four indexes--Geographical, People, Source, and Topical. I just
starting seeing an anomaly in one of the indexes that I cannot explain
and do not know how to correct--the page numbers are out of sequence.
For example, one entry looks like this:

[Source entry], 93, 145=3F46, 145, 108, 150, 152, 45, 150, 153, 149,
156, 79, 156

The codes for the index are as follows:

{ INDEX \f "S" \z "1033" }

I am using Microsoft Word 2002 (10.6843.6839) SP3.

Any suggestions?

Bill Buntain

It's well known that using the master doc feature is an invitation to
problems. I wonder if you are experience one of them.

 

[bbuntain]

I am working with a large Word document (330 pages) that is set up as
a master document with subdocuments. At the end there are a set of
four indexes--Geographical, People, Source, and Topical. I just
starting seeing an anomaly in one of the indexes that I cannot explain
and do not know how to correct--the page numbers are out of sequence.
For example, one entry looks like this:

[Source entry], 93, 145=3F46, 145, 108, 150, 152, 45, 150, 153, 149,
156, 79, 156

The codes for the index are as follows:

{ INDEX \f "S" \z "1033" }

I am using Microsoft Word 2002 (10.6843.6839) SP3.

Any suggestions?

Bill Buntain

It's well known that using the master doc feature is an invitation to
problems. I wonder if you are experience one of them.

I am aware of the problems. However, we were faced with a situation in
which we had a short timeline to produce a 300+ page document with a
single table of contents and a set of indexes that cross-referenced
the entire document. The only way was to do this was to allow multiple
authors/editors to work on the document simultaneously. In the early
stages I was just pulling the pieces into a monolithic Word document
as they were completed, but that document got corrupted, so I settled
on the master/subdocument approach as a way to facilitate the group
editing process and minimize the impact of any future file corruption
issues.

I actually found the source of my problem. The problem was that there
were bookmark names and index entries duplicated across subdocuments.
There were several factors contributing to this problem, including
copying text from one subdocument to another or cloning one
subdocument to another as a starting point for editing. I wrote a
macro that traversed the master and subdocuments checking for
duplicates and then made the appropriate corrections. That resolved
the problem. Thanks.

Bill Buntain