Re: Index question

I think she meant MS (manuscript); MSS is plural.

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"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" <robert.franz@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Susan

Susan Flamingo wrote:
Thank you for the reply.
Word version: 2007

No the entries are not heading they are "in the text"

The book I am working on is a religious MSS.

MSS?


The pages are very large
with a great deal of text on each page. However the page itself is
broken up into many sections (with a heading) so the reader will find
the section faster through this method.

Hmm. He will find it faster *once* he's found the page, yes.

Is the text in separate columns on the pages? If not, I'd certainly
consider a redesign of the document (readability).


You say there is no "out of the box" solution. Well is there a inbox
solution?

What I meant is that most probably you'll need some macro code to solve
this.

A possible algorithm would take the result of a normal index, run
through all entries, locate it on the given page, then locate the
nearest preceding section, and insert the section number in the index.

Unfortunately, I'm not a coder myself. There are vba newsgroups around,
though.


DO you know and resources that could help me with this? Tutorials
especially on Word indexing?

There is an article on indexing (and many on Word-VBA) on the Word-MVP
site: http://word.mvps.org

HTH
Robert
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