Hello Leslie
I want to be able to click on an item in my index and be brought to that item.
"hyperlinked index entries" have been a long standing wish, but alas,
it's not something implemented in Word to this day.
[It would seem to be harder to implement than, say, hyperlinked TOC
entries, because a TOC entry is unique -- an index entry, even on a
particular page, might not be.]
You could create TC instead of XE entries to mark the words for your
index, and then create a TOC from these TC fields. But, the TOC will
always be in order (of appearance), not alphabetically.
A macro unlinking the TOC result and ordering it alphabetically is
certainly a possiblity.
HTH
Robert