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Chris, I was about to recommend that you give the Master Document
feature a whirl (ho ho). The code was completely rewritten for Word
2007 and, it was reported in the Woody's Office for Mere Mortals
newsletter, now worked reliably.
There is a link at the end of the article to Word MVP Dian Chapman's
page on using RD fields [1]instead of master docs.
Robert Lauriston wrote:
> I believe you could create a concordance file from the index in the
> PDF, then use the AutoMark option to insert XE fields automatically.
A concordance is not an index. Unless it's changed radically in the
last decade, the AutoMark feature is a fast way to produce something
that looks a little like an index until you try to use it. If an index
is required, take the time to produce one.
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