Re: Advice on using Word to generate index

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

Maggie Pierce Secara wrote:
> 
> ...Being bold in the paragraph has no effect on the font in 
> the actual index.

The thing to remember is that it's the *extra* applied formatting--formatting that's not part of the paragraph style--that gets carried into the index (assuming you use the Mergeformat option, of course).

To see what I mean, let's assume your Normal and Index 1 paragraph styles are defined with Times New Roman as the font.

1. Create a small .doc file with three Normal paragraphs and 
   three fields, like this:

   { XE "monospace text" }¶
   { XE "monospace paragraph" }¶
   { INDEX }¶

2. Select just the quoted text in the first paragraph, and 
   set the font to Courier New.

3. Define a paragraph style with Courier New font.

4. Apply the new paragraph style to the second paragraph.

5. Press Ctrl+A; then press F9 to generate the index.

Note that the "monospace paragraph" entry is in Times New Roman, but the "monospace text" entry is in Courier New.

--David 
 
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