Suzanne
Fri Sep 05 23:20:19 CDT 2003
What you have written seems to have to do with TOCs, not indexes.
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"Jeffrey Brown" <browj@Co.Clark.NV.US> wrote in message
news:eQEweb$cDHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> That is very helpful. Are you using styles with your tags? This is one of
> the interesting things that Word likes to do to throw people off. It
assigns
> precedence depending on which outline level of style you place it at. If
> it's a outline level 1 (heading 1 etc), it will be given higher priority
> than something with outline level 2 or 3 and so on. You catching my drift?
> If not, this article might help:
>
>
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm
>
> --
> "Being a student of life leaves little room for ego."
>
> -Anonymous
> "ken" <kericks272@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:uBpw3K$cDHA.2368@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I guess I wasn't clear enough with my wishes. I know how to insert the
XE
> > references. That's not the problem. The problem has to do with how
Word
> > sorts the table. There is no way that I can find to change the sort
> method.
> > I my case, I want to sort only Alpha characters. No sorting on
> punctuation
> > characters. I need this due some of my references have to have a number
> of
> > leading punctuation characters (mostly the period) but that same
reference
> > has a non-punctuation reference of the same name (i.e.: .Rename and
> > Rename()) I would like them to be adjacent in the Index table but the
> first
> > reference is in the "." group while the second is in the "R" group. I
> have
> > to add a lot of "See .xxx and See Xxx" to my cross reference entries. I
> > manage to get around this by adding a large macro (5 pages) with a list
of
> > all my punctuated cross references and move them to the appropriate
letter
> > group. Have to remember to run the macro when I change something in the
> > rest of the document and that's happens on a daily basis.
> >
> >
> > "Jeffrey Brown" <browj@Co.Clark.NV.US> wrote in message
> > news:uAwKL8zcDHA.736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > Hmm...the only way I know to set up an index item is to insert the XE
> > field
> > > right next to the item I am wanting to show up in the index. I am not
> sure
> > > if you know this or not, so skip it if you do. Using TOC and Index
type
> > > features is made very easy by using the Outline view and making sure
to
> > use
> > > the appropriate styles. This will help organize all the elements you
> want
> > to
> > > show up in your index more effeciently. You can learn more about it
> here:
> > >
> > >
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Being a student of life leaves little room for ego."
> > >
> > > -Anonymous
> > > "ken" <kericks272@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > > news:#MAl6JdcDHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > Is there any way to change the sorting method word uses for the
index
> > > table?
> > > > In particular, I want word to sort only on alpha characters - not on
> > > > punctuation or numeric characters. I'm assuming I'll have to write
> some
> > > VB
> > > > code to gather the XE data and do my own sorting.
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > > Ken Erickson
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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