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MKeegs - 14 Mar 2007 21:43 GMT

I am generating an index for an instruction manual. I usually use another
program for manuals, so I'm getting frustrated. I marked all my entries and
then generated the index, but realized that some of the words are bold in
the index and others aren't. I went back and modified each of the words
inside the quotation marks to the right of the XE symbol so that they are how
I want them to appear in the index, but they persist in being bolded. I have
tried everyway of getting them back to regular that I can think of, short of
un-bolding the actual term in the manual. Help!

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Henk57 - 15 Mar 2007 00:12 GMT

MKeegs;2034394 Wrote:

> I am generating an index for an instruction manual. I usually us
> another
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> short of
> un-bolding the actual term in the manual. Help!

Hi:
Could it be that you have different levels assigned to your marke
entries, and that one level is bold and the other isn't?
Hen

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MKeegs - 15 Mar 2007 14:28 GMT

> MKeegs;2034394 Wrote:
> > I am generating an index for an instruction manual. I usually use
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> entries, and that one level is bold and the other isn't?
> Henk

Yes, that was it, thank you very very much. I have gone back and removed
the tags from headings and placed them in paragraphs and the formatting is
correct. I appreciate it.

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Sandie Scrivens - 25 May 2007 23:59 GMT

Don't go to the bother of changing the field code. Just selct the first
section of your index and format it how you want - font, size, colour, bold
or not etc. Then use the Format Painter to apply these attributes the other
sections of the index. Remember double clicking allows you paste format to
many - don't forget to deselct Format Painter when you have finished.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 26 May 2007 00:37 GMT

It is not necessary to format more than one index entry at a given level, as
all Index styles are set to update automatically by default. And if they
weren't, formatting the entries would be a waste of time, as the formatting
would be lost the next time the index was updated.

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> Don't go to the bother of changing the field code. Just selct the first
> section of your index and format it how you want - font, size, colour, bold
> or not etc. Then use the Format Painter to apply these attributes the other
> sections of the index. Remember double clicking allows you paste format to
> many - don't forget to deselct Format Painter when you have finished.

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