index field code question

[Karen Lea Siegel]

Not quite sure this is the right place for the question,
but it is for a long document, so here goes:

I'm working in Word 2000, and I would ideally like to be
able to use a field code switch for the XE (Index Entry)
field called "type." It is listed in Word Help, with a
syntax of \f "type", and the documentation says that using
this syntax to mark an index entry means the entry is only
included in an index inserted by the field {index
\f "type"}.

Tried this. I'm getting the whole index, regardless of
what I've placed in the "type" position in the switch.

What I have (or what I will eventually have) is a bunch of
marked index entries, each marked for a specific scope
statement for the current project, and ideally I'd like to
be able to generate one "mini-index" for each scope
statement. So the "type" switch would contain something
like "ss1", "ss2", and so on. As I said, I tried this, and
got the whole index regardless of switch instructions, and
I'm blessed if I can find any more detailed documentation
of this field switch.

Anybody got a suggestion? (Other than do it all as a
straight single index, which I can also do.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You're limited to a single letter (the example in Help is "a"), and you have
to include this switch in each XE field as well as in the INDEX field.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Karen Siegel]

Ah! Can the single letter be a digit? Oh, shoot...that's
not going to help; I need fifty-five individual codes, and
between single letters and single digits there aren't
enough. Ah, well, I guess this one isn't going to work.
Thanks for the tip, though.
kls