Question about combining indexes

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Angela

I am not familiar with the indexing feature in Word and am
not having much luck finding this information. I have a
client who has prepared multiple indexes that eventually
need to be combined into one large index. Is there a way
to merge them while retaining subheads and keeping it
alphabetized?
 
Hi Angela,
I am not familiar with the indexing feature in Word and am
not having much luck finding this information. I have a
client who has prepared multiple indexes that eventually
need to be combined into one large index. Is there a way
to merge them while retaining subheads and keeping it
alphabetized?
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Since we know neither the version of Word involved, nor how
the indexes were created, it's impossible to say.

The basic Word feature for generating an index involves
setting XE fields for each entry. Within an XE field it's
possible to set a value for the \f switch that will send an
entry to a particular index (generated with an INDEX field
that specifies the same value).

If this is what was done in the document in question, then it
would be a matter of replacing the \f switch values so that
all have the same value, and inserting/updating an Index
field for this value.

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

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