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

First I have confused everyone. For that I apologize. I also asked 
the question in such a way as to suggest I was asking the same thing 
twice, and again I apologize. It is not my intention to annoy anyone 
at all.  Let me start over.

I am making a genealogy report on living people whom I am missing 
information for. I am putting one person per page, but I am not 
entering them in alphabetical order. My intention was to enter them 
as I came to them, generate a table of contents that is alphabetized 
(I seriously thought I could do that), and let that be my table of 
contents as well as an index. I was trying to kill two birds with one 
stone. Yes, there are genealogical programs that do this, but I am 
trying to do this in a more customized way.

So at first I tried to assemble an Index, using the Index headers to 
identify what names are to be included the index. I used "Index 1" to 
identify the names.  Upon completion, I attempted to build an index, 
but Word says:
Error! No index entries found.

I obviously did something wrong, but I thought I made 107 index 
entries. At this point, I change all that to "Heading 1" and try to 
make a table of contents, thinking I could alphabetize the table of 
contents. Obviously, I cannot do that, so I have to go back the Index.

Can anyone tell me why using "Index 1" is not working? I must doing it wrong.

Again, to anyone and all of us that I annoyed, I do apologize.

Thank you.

Robert




At 2009-01-03  05:22 PM, you wrote:
>I am not clear on why you referred to Headers.
>I expect a Table of Contents is always created with respect to the 
>order in which items appear in the document so there is no way to 
>try to rearrange the list of contents out of order.  Maybe what you 
>want to create is an Index which is sorted alphabetically rather 
>than by order of appearance.
>
>Jonathan
>
>--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Robert Carneal USA <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>From: Robert Carneal USA <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [mso] Alphabetizing table of contents- how??
>To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 12:31 PM
>
>Hello everyone.  I am working on a document that uses Headers and the
>information is not being entered in alphabetical order. Therefore,
>when I create a table of contents, it looks like this:
>Anderson, James.....2
>Davidson, Denise....3
>Brown, Mark.........4
>George, Kathy.......5
>Epplworth, Dave.....6
>Applebee, Laura.....7
>
>This would force me to scan the enter list to look for Dave
>Epplworth. I tried to sort the table of contents, but Word says it
>cannot be sorted. (I am using Word 2000.)
>
>I would much prefer the table of contents look like this instead:
>Anderson, James.....2
>Applebee, Laura.....7
>Brown, Mark.........4
>Davidson, Denise....3
>Epplworth, Dave.....6
>George, Kathy.......5
>
>Sure, the pages are out of order, but that is ok. I'd much rather
>have the names in order. Can I do this?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Robert
>
>
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