I guarantee that if you apply Heading 1 style to each main entry, you will
be able to sort this in Outline view. This assumes that there is a paragraph
break at the end of each line. If you have line breaks within entries (so
that each main entry is a single paragraph), it will be even easier: just
use Table | Sort.'

If your current set up has an empty paragraph (blank line) between main
entries, replace ^p with ^l (lowercase L), then replace ^l^l with ^p and you
will have the required format for using Table | Sort.

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There are two indexes I have made with the normal default settings, page
view,
and no special formatting yet. For instance:
(where indicates indented space)

Aardvarks, 78
fat, 123
skinny, 45
tough, 765

It will be about a total of 200 pages between the two files, so you can
see
it would greatly help to do this automatically, without having to manually
collate all the thousands of entries.





Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
What is the format of the "indexes" you are dealing with. And are these
INDEX fields (or TOC fields)? If each line in the index is a separate
paragraph, you should be able to apply heading paragraph styles to the
main
entries.

Thank you.

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Tobiah

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