I'm working with an extremely large file (just over 900 double-spaced pages),
converted (because of a publisher's demand) from WordPerfect to Word 2002. I
had been marking index entries in the whole file, and occasionally generating
indices to make sure things were working. When I was almost to the halfway
point, I was getting significant time lags, so I separated the two halves. I
marked the remaining section of the first half, then attempted to generate an
index. I was asked if I wanted to replace the current (non-existent) index,
and said that I did. Instead of creating the index, the program moved my
cursor to a place in the middle of the document -- one with no distinguishing
features that I could detect. I then pasted the just-marked section into the
file containing the complete text, and it responded in the same way to my
generate-an-index command. Obviously, I'm in trouble...

Please ignore -- I solved the problem by deleting several lines before and
after the place the cursor was jumping to, then retyping them. The index now
generates trouble-free.

"Alan White" wrote:

I'm working with an extremely large file (just over 900 double-spaced pages),
converted (because of a publisher's demand) from WordPerfect to Word 2002. I
had been marking index entries in the whole file, and occasionally generating
indices to make sure things were working. When I was almost to the halfway
point, I was getting significant time lags, so I separated the two halves. I
marked the remaining section of the first half, then attempted to generate an
index. I was asked if I wanted to replace the current (non-existent) index,
and said that I did. Instead of creating the index, the program moved my
cursor to a place in the middle of the document -- one with no distinguishing
features that I could detect. I then pasted the just-marked section into the
file containing the complete text, and it responded in the same way to my
generate-an-index command. Obviously, I'm in trouble...