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I looked up the article and the fix worked. I knew I could count on my
fellow techwhirlers. :)
Marianne
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Paske [mailto:rpaske -at- csiks -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:33 PM
To: 'Bowen, Marianne'
Cc: 'Techwr-l'
Subject: RE: Word Indexing question
Marianne Bowen writes:
>When I try to mark index entries, the Word dialog box displays the marked
>word in the Main Entry field. However, in this document I am unable to see
>the entry, the very top of the entry is visible in the field, but there
>seems to be a "Space Before" in this field. I thought it might be from the
>style used in the document, however, even deleting the Space Before from
the
>style does not change the result when trying to mark the entry.
>
>Has anyone encountered this and can tell me where in the document I can
>change this so the word I am trying to mark becomes visible?
I ran into this, too. It's a bug in Word. It doesn't affect the index at
all, so if you can get used to the weirdness of its appearance, you
shouldn't have any problems. Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q185980 (on
their site) has more about this.
