I agree this is annoying. Have you considered just leaving Hidden text
displayed as long as you're marking index entries?

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"Ray Cox" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me how to stop the following:

Whenever I use the "Mark Index Entry" feature (MS Word 2003 for Windows)
to
mark an index entry, after clicking the Mark button, Word automatically
switches to the "hidden text view" mode. When I click the button to
switch
back to normal view, the document page position is moved to the extent
that
the text I was marking isn't even visible on the screen any more. So for
every entry I make, I need to make the following (needless) extra steps to
continue making entries: Click button to go back to normal mode; scroll
back up to bring the text where I was editing back onscreen.

Thanks for any help.

Ray