German Umlauts problem in index

[Ferdinand Fichtner]

Hi,

I'm creating an index in my document using {INDEX \h "A"}, thus making
Word 2000 to split up the index by inserting the first letter as index
heading.

Works quite good except for a problem with German umlauts (Ä, Ö, Ü).
Word sorts the index entries (as is common) as e.g.

Aal
Abitur
Ärmel
Apfel
Arm

thus splitting up Ä to Ae and Ö to Oe and Ü to Ue. No problem so far.
Problem is, though, that inserts the index heading "Ä" before the
first word starting with Ä and then again an A after the last Ä-word,
making the index look like

-A-
Aal
Abitur

-Ä-
Ärmel

-A-
Apfel
Arm

which of course is not what I want. Is there a way to tell Word to
either not include the index heading "Ä" or sort all the Ä-words after
all the A-word.

And, btw. what's the \z-switch in the index field for?

Best wishes and thanks,

Ferdinand

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Ferdinand,

Is there a way to tell Word to
either not include the index heading "Ä" or sort all the Ä-words after
all the A-word.

Not that I know of. But you might have better luck asking this in the
German group: de.word

And, btw. what's the \z-switch in the index field for?

From Word's help:

"\z
Defines the language ID that Microsoft Word uses to generate the index."

1033 is US English, for example; 1031 is German.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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