Re: Indexing a 212-page tech document using WORD '03?

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

> First, enter all new words alphabetically in a file...

That's WAY more complicated than I've ever done in any of the many manuals 
I've indexed in Word, over the years...and I almost NEVER use the "add 
index entry" UI.

I go through a document, front to back, adding index entries as I go (press 
Ctrl+F9; type XE, a quotation mark, the index entry, another quotation 
mark.)  If I know I'll have a lot of entries with a common heading, I might 
type it once, put it on the clipboard, and pasted it everywhere I need it, 
appending the approprate subheadings as I go.

The consistency comes from remembering what I've already done.*

At any point along the way, but certainly when I finish the first pass, I 
compile the index.  Then my process looks a lot like what Geoff described 
in his second paragraph.

The only difference might be that I'll rebuild the index many times after 
the first pass, refining until I have it just the way I want.  It's so 
quick and easy to compile the index that there's no reason to woryy about 
getting everything just right on any particular pass.

--David

*  I believe I'd lose more time than I'd save using the separate-file
   method Geoff described in his first paragraph.  Perhaps his method
   would be better than mine for someone newer to indexing.

   I find Geoff's recommendations to be consistenly excellent, so I
   assume there's an audience for this one, too...just not me, in this
   case!  :)

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