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concordance and index
I have a document with an Index at the end. It has been built up using a
separate concordance document. Is there any simple way that i can update the concordance (esp deleting an entry in the concordance) and then update the index entries in the main document so that all previous entries to that (now deleted) item in the concordance are deleted from the main document and therefore also the main document index? In the past, I have deleted all index entries in the main doc and then rebuilt the doc using the modified concordance, but this is slow and clumsy and prone to mistakes? |
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On Fri, 27 May 2005 16:03:07 -0700, Bandicoot
wrote: I have a document with an Index at the end. It has been built up using a separate concordance document. Is there any simple way that i can update the concordance (esp deleting an entry in the concordance) and then update the index entries in the main document so that all previous entries to that (now deleted) item in the concordance are deleted from the main document and therefore also the main document index? In the past, I have deleted all index entries in the main doc and then rebuilt the doc using the modified concordance, but this is slow and clumsy and prone to mistakes? No, it doesn't work that way. The concordance file only supplies things for the auto-mark routine to look for. If you did as you proposed, you'd just get a second XE field for each entry, but only the original one for the entry you removed. The final index would look exactly the same as before. The correct procedure is to find the XE fields that contain the unwanted entry and remove them from the body of the document. You can do that with Edit Replace... Turn on nonprinting characters with the ¶ button, so you can see the XE fields (they're formatted as hidden). Open the Edit Replace dialog. Let's say the entry you want to remove is "thermonuclear". Then type in the Find What box ^d XE "thermonuclear" Notice the single space on either side of the XE, which is required to match the field codes. Leave the Replace With box empty, and click the Replace All button. Then update the index field at the end of the document. You can remove the unwanted row from the concordance file in case you ever want to use it again to auto-mark a document, but that's of no consequence for this document now. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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