[Peter T. Daniels]

More like ... no documentation at all.

Not long ago I found my Word 2.0 (for Mac, I assume) materials, and the structure
of Index entries hasn't changed in essence since then; but it didn't have the
multiple indexes \f capacity yet.

I _know_ that the documentation for Word 5 included a full list of field codes
and how to use them (in language people other than computer geeks can understand),
because I used it extensively, less than ten years ago, when I needed to construct
complicated linguistics formulas with nested braces and brackets and such,
sometimes many lines high, and got so I could just type them right off and not
need to do much cleaning-up afterward. And now I cannot find that book.

Indexes in Word2007:

Turns out that if you have multiple indexes with \fa, \fb, etc., then any
Index entry that has no \f switch will be picked up by an Index Field that also
has no \f switch in it.

While this looks like it means you can use unswitched entries to make the longest
of the indexes (a Subject Index, for instance), you shouldn't do that -- because
by insserting an Index Field without an \f you can catch Index entries where
you forgot to add an \f switch and immediately correct them. (It doesn't help
when you accidentally enter the wrong switch, though.)

On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 11:49:13 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Hi Peter

On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 5:53:10 PM UTC+2, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
But more important: Was this an innovation later than Word2007, or will it work in the older version?

If memory serves me right, that stuff is very old (Word 97 at least).

Very old -- no "new" documentation ... ;-)

Greetinx
Robert