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The short answer to your second question is no, Word provides no native
method for creating a linked index. One commercial solution is Steve
Hudson's Indexing tool (see http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/Tools.html), which creates a linked
index in Word. I believe that it also transfers as a linked index when
distilled to PDF (to answer your first question). But it isn't cheap!
I have no commercial interest in Steve's products and have not tried them,
but he has a solid reputation in the Word experts' community.
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eisbruchs
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:33 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Index with links
>
> The entries in a TOC generated in MS Word
> are automatically linked to the topics. The
> entries in an Index generated in MS Word
> are not automatically linked.
> So let's say
> I'm looking at an MS Word document online and
> I see an index entry: kittens, 54
> I can't just click on the word "kittens" or
> the number "54" to get to page 54. I
> have to scroll or otherwise GOTO page 54. Correct?
> Let's say I use Adobe Acrobat to convert an MS Word
> document to *.pdf file. The *.pdf file's TOC
> entries are linked. But again, the index
> entries are not linked.
> Question: How do I create a *.pdf with linked index
> entries? Also, is it possible to create a linked
> index in MS Word?
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