Gene I think...anyway you tackle it, it's gonna be a huge project.....but the way I would do it is with bookmarks....you can add bookmarks where the words appear within the document, then link to them from the index...would be a lot of work tho If you don't know how to make bookmarks, read this little tutorial I wrote for the Newbie Club: http://newbieclub.com/officetips/20010806.htm But....I'm really thinking you need to break this Word file up....you are just asking for trouble with a document this large....it's just begging to get corrupted, then you won't have a document at all....Dian has a wonderful tutorial on creating Master Document and subDocuments with indexes...you might want to look into this: http://www.mousetrax.com/mastdoc.html Good luck Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop www.personal-computer-tutor.com Author/Teacher ~ MS Office EBooks/Classes www.personal-computer-tutor.com/services.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edwin E. (Gene) Wagner Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 5:46 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2000 Pro Mike: I really thank you for this comment! But, this is a book with as I said many pages and peoples names are indexed to the pages this name shows up on, some show on many pages, So I am lost as to how doing them in Styles would help? There are some 5000 probably names in the index, I believe I see how and what you mean but it would take many headers to make it work as I see it? I have a lot to learn about Word That's for sure. Gene ************************************************************* PLEASE READ!!!! You are receiving this mail because you either subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or to it's earlier version, MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line that says "unsubscribe" (without the quotes). Do not put unsubscribe IN CAPS. Screaming doesn't get you out any faster and the caps prevent the function from working. To change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail), visit the group's homepage for full instructions. //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso *************************************************************