[mso] Re: Alphabetizing table of contents- how??

I've hesitated about coming in on this one as I didn't want to throw a cat
among the pigeons.  But my route would have been not to start in Word at
all, but create the info in Excel and then sort on my chosen fields before
doing a Word mailmerge to a catalog using the Excel file as my data source.
I've done this for years with a lot of success, so long as the field lengths
don't exceed Excel's capacity (if I recall in 2000 they may have been more
limited than more recent versions).  It's a really good way to handle lots
of data, including text (Excel is really good at handling text not just
numbers!) and getting a professional version at the end of it.  You can then
set the item you want to create your index on each page with an index mark
or link to a paragraph style that achieves the same result.
And just to mix the metaphors, this may be a total red herring!

Anne :)

2009/1/6 Robert Carneal USA <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Thank you. That proves *I* am doing something wrong. To be certain
> that it was not Word malfunctioning, I reinstalled Office 2000, but
> so far have the same results on *this* computer.  Then I tried it on
> my laptop, creating the document, with an index in the front. Saved
> it, shut down, and rebooted. Opened the same document and the index
> is indeed there!
>
> So that means something is different on MY end, but hanged if I see it!
>
> Oh well, the document is 90 percent done now. (yay!) Just some minor
> editing to do on corrections a few of us left off. We might as well
> as close this thread.
>
> Thanks, everyone.
>
> Robert
>  At 2009-01-05  05:21 PM, you wrote:
> >An index is a field like any other field. It should stay put where
> >you've put it, and NOT vanish between sessions.
> >
> >I think something else must be at work.
> >
> >As an experiment I created a blank manual based on our department
> >standard, which includes an index. I cut and pasted the Index field from
> >the back to the front, replacing the TOC field.
> >
> >I saved, exited, restarted, reopened, and the Index was exactly where
> >I'd put it.
> >
> >Bear
>
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