Thank you for restating the answer to this question for me. I never asked the
question before, and a search of the existing threads didn't show it.
I do use styles (I'm a FrameMaker user forced to use Word), even for bold
and italic, but in *my* Word 2003, the index markers inserted in Headings and
character tagged formatting DO pick it up (and hold it forever; moving it
once it's formatted doesn't work, I have to delete it).

So you're saying yours doesn't do that? No wonder there is nothing about it
in Word Help. Hmmmm.....thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The answer is the same today as it was when I answered your duplicate
question yesterday (or whenever). If you have applied direct font formatting
to the text, this will be picked up by the index (or a TOC). Indexes and
TOCs do not pick up font formatting that is part of the paragraph style (the
default paragraph font). If you are not using paragraph styles, then this is
one more reason to start doing so.

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"SandyTechWriter" wrote in
message ...
When I put index entries on heading lines and other formatted paragraphs,
the
index entry retains the formatting (bold, italic, size, etc.). No amount
of
selecting the entry and trying to clear the formatting works, because it
reappears the next time I generate the index.

How do I get rid of this unwanted formatting? Microsoft has nothing about
this in their support.