[mso] Re: Word help pls
- From: Robert Carneal <carnealr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:19:50 -0500
Most of the names are like my own, oddly spelled. Carneal, Strisstimpson,
Sharppe, etc. The concordance file does sound easier of the two options. I
would prefer not to go through page by page if possible!
I do have "chapters", usually not more than 82 pages, and I am thinking
about breaking each book up and make each chapter a file of its own.
Roughly counting, that's going to be about 12 chapters. I had been thinking
how much easier it would be research-wise if I broke this up into 32 chapters.
Looking over your web-site, I am beginning to wonder if I would benefit
from both of your "Word Advanced Techniques" and "Word Advanced Document
Design Course"?
I download your eBook sample. You may well have an eager customer in a day
or two. I had Word in college, but it was more of a typing course than a
course on Word. Thank you!!
Robert
At 08:37 PM 8/21/2003, you wrote:
>Two ways to do it. Either go through all the pages, select the name and
>add an index marker...or create a concordance file with all the names and
>let Word run though and set all the indices for you.
>
>However, although the concordance file sounds like the easy way, it, of
>course, has problems and can be a royal pain! However, in your case with
>names, it might work. In the case of books with word, you can sometimes end
>up with tags to words you didn't want marked or partial words, etc. Since
>names are more distinct and you won't use them with the book,
>really...okay, so there could be "words" like "art", "pat", etc...it's
>less likely than with standard "words" throughout a doc. So you MIGHT have
>better luck than most????
>
>Then just add the index marker on the last page...or in a separate doc and
>use the RD fields to pull from the other doc. See this article for details
>on RD fields:
>www.mousetrax.com/mastdoc.html
>
>
>Dian Chapman
>Technical Consultant,
>Microsoft MVP & Instructor
>
>Free Tutorials: www.mousetrax.com/techtrax
>Free Word Tips & Tricks eBook: www.mousetrax.com/books.html
>Learn VBA the easy way, thru video! www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Robert Carneal
>Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:52 PM
>To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [mso] Word help pls
>
>Ok, first question. (I will do this slow.) I have written a family history
>book. I have no index yet. Is there a simple way to build an index of names?
>
>Caveat: when I go to bed tonight, the total pages probably will reach 807
>pages.
>
>I know how to build an index and tables on a document that I start from
>scratch, but I don't know how to do this on a document (already large)
>that is currently in progress. Judging from the genealogy program where I
>keep the data, there are 2,821 individual names. Those are the names I'd
>like to get a listing of.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Robert
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