I've possibly an idea but it depends on how many Menu Authors there are?

Terry Farrell

"KJ" wrote in message
...
: Thank you for putting so much time and effort into my problem. I will
give
: your suggestions a try.
:
: KJ
:
: "Daiya Mitchell" wrote:
:
: Okay, that clarifies a lot, though I cut down some of your info. Maybe
: someone else will come along with some good ideas, because I'm kinda
stumped
: for an easy way to do this.
:
: I can see one path, but it involves doing a whole lotta stuff by hand,
: extremely repetitively, and with a lot of formatting at the end which
would
: be cancelled if you accidentally updated the index--and essentially,
it'd be
: easier to type it yourself. Since you already have the structure done,
and
: just need to enter all the recipe names in the right places, you might
as
: well.
:
: To build the index, you would need to enter each recipe name as a
subentry
: for the author name. Either creating the index fields by hand, or
possibly
: by creating a concordance file that looked like:
:
: cheese: Pastrami Cheese Ball
: cheese: Baked Brie With Apples
: Reiman, Deborah: Baked Brie With Apples
: Reiman, Deborah: Other Recipe Name
:
: Creating the concordance file alone would be as much or more work as
making
: the indices yourself.
:
: Word would still generate an index that mixed Cheese and Meat in with
: Reiman, Deborah and Edgell, Linda, so you would need to re-sort that out
by
: hand after generating the index.
:
: Word doesn't do a hyperlinked index--so even if you built the index,
those
: page numbers would not be clickable in Word. So I think you would have
to
: set each recipe name appearing in the index as a hyperlink back to that
: recipe (much easier to do than hyperlinked page numbers, actually), but
: still a lot of work, I think.
:
: If you are willing to learn macros/VBA, it's possible someone could help
you
: develop some macros to take over some of the grunt work, but that
probably
: wouldn't actually save any time.
:
: It's conceivable that generating a TOC and then manipulating that into
the
: form you want would save you some work, but I'm not sure how successful
that
: would be--making it possible to manipulate might erase the hyperlinks.
:
: Maybe someone who knows more has better ideas.
:
: On 5/26/05 12:39 PM, "KJ" wrote:
:
: Here is a more detailed description of what I am trying to accomplish
:
: I want to place these types of indices into the document so that when
I
: print it to a pdf the links will follow it. The Author¹s names have
a
: special style applied to them and I have a separate file with all of
the
: author¹s names in it AND I have them alphbetized Â* when I make the
index it
: re-alphabetizes it by the first name (the first name is first in the
actual
: document). I would like it to keep the sort order I have set up in
the
: separate file with the names in it.
:
: I would then like to put a second index into the document that is very
: similar except that instead of listing the recipes by author it will
list
: them by type of food, like chicken recipes will all be together and
the
: cholcolate recipes will be together Â* I have a separate file with the
types
: and groups together.
:
: I am can not understand how to mark and generate the index entries to
get
: these lists.
:
: Author¹s Index
:
: Eric and Gail Arner
: Cream Cheese And Onion Dip Pg #x
: Carrot Sheet Cake Pg #x
: Winter Fruit Salad Pg #x
:
:
: Main Ingredient Index
:
: Bread
: Angel Biscuits Pg #x
: Bagels Pg #x
: Banana Nut Bread Pg #x
: Beer Bread Pg #x
: Biscotti Pg #x
: Bisquick Balls Pg #x
:
:
: