[Graham Mayor]

Use the list you have created to make the concordance file discussed
throught the rest of the message.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Molly McD wrote:
Your last suggestion for the existing document will give me a list,
but it is not going to tell me what page/line number the word
appears. Any way to accomplish THAT?

Word 2003's Help file is pretty good in describing what a
concordance file is and how to create one:

Automatically mark entries by using a concordance file

1.. Create a concordance file (concordance file: A list of words
to include in an index. Use a concordance file in Microsoft Word
to quickly mark index entries.). How?

1.. Click Insert Table on the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar
with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To
display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.).
2.. Drag to select two columns.
3.. In the first column, enter the text you want Microsoft Word
to search for and mark as an index entry. Make sure to enter the
text exactly as it appears in the document. Then press TAB.
4.. In the second column, type the index entry for the text in
the first column. Then press TAB. If you want to create a subentry
(subentry: An index entry that falls under a more general heading.
For example, the index entry "planets" could have the subentries
"Mars" and "Venus."), type the main entry followed by a colon (
and the subentry.
5.. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each index reference and entry.
6.. Save the concordance file.
To create a word list using an existing document, I would begin by
using Find/Replace to replace all spaces with paragraph marks, so
that the words are in a list. I would next sort them (Table - Sort
will sort text even if it's not in a table). Then I would eliminate
the duplicates and small words I don't want included.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Molly McD" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your reply, Herb. A couple more questions: What is a
concordance file? How would I go about (even though requiring
finesse) using an existing document? And no, I do not want the
a's, an's, and the's. It seems to me that WordPerfect used to have
this indexing feature. Since I'm transcribing and typing at 150+
words per minute, I don't want to be slowed down by having to
"mark" words to index. --
Molly McD


"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

If you have a list of words you want indexed, you can use a
concordance file to automatically mark words for indexing (look
for the AutoMark button in the Index dialog box). As to whether
you want ALL words in the document indexed (do you really want
every occurrence of "a", "the", and "and" indexed?), well, that's
up to you. Using an existing document to generate the list of
words to index would require a little finesse, but it can be done.
You might even be able to find existing/comprehensive word lists
online that will serve your needs.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Molly McD" wrote in message
...
I need to create an index or list of every word in a document
with page and
line number where it appears. Court reporters do this with their
software programs (not Word!). Can I do it with Word 2003?

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Molly McD