Topic: entering an index entry field
technique:
- Ctrl+F9 creates field;
- then type in xe to turn it into an index entry field
with all text typed as hidden text;
- next comes a " to start the text of the entry;
- next, the text to be entered is pasted from the clip
board;
-next comes the closing " - however:
ERROR: The " is not rendered as hidden text, any text
entered before or after that " will also not be hidden.
There is no way to turn this text into a hidden text. This
text will show up in the printed text. Under certain
circumstances, the index field itself gets corrupted, as
one can delete the index braces individually; the field
does not get marked as such anymore. That can corrupt the
entire file, as a field has no defined end. Files can turn
unreadable this way.

Result: quotation marks all over the place, and sometimes
even text from the entry tag typed or copied before the
non-hidden ". Under certain circumstances: Corrupt files
(had to recover one once).

This error does not happen when text is written or when
the menu option Insert/Reference/Index... is used for an
entry (auto-entry or not). Only when text is pasted from
the clipboard into the tag.

Solution: ??? As long as there is non, I will cannot use
Word, as I need indexes quite often.

History: That error occurred first in Word XP and is still
there in Word 2003.

Please make somebody aware of this problem and fix it,
because Word is about to lose all those users who need the
indexing function!

Gerry