Creating an Index

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Fran - 24 Jul 2007 23:14 GMT

I am working with a large multi-chapter official County government document
that is broken down into fifteen Articles (chapters). Each Article is
further broken down into Sections (2-101, 2-102, etc.) and there are also
page numbers in each Article (II-1, II-2, etc.). I have been given the task
of creating an index for this complex document. Is there a way to link the
index to a particular Section instead of page number? Also, how can I create
one index from multiple Articles? Thanks!!

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Robert M. Franz (RMF) - 08 Aug 2007 19:07 GMT

Hi Fran

> I am working with a large multi-chapter official County government document
> that is broken down into fifteen Articles (chapters). Each Article is
> further broken down into Sections (2-101, 2-102, etc.) and there are also
> page numbers in each Article (II-1, II-2, etc.). I have been given the task
> of creating an index for this complex document. Is there a way to link the
> index to a particular Section instead of page number?

You mean, to generate an Index from one section only instead of the
whole document? ISTR that you can run an index over a bookmark. [Check
the INDEX field code switches in offline help.] For that, you need to
create a bookmark covering the whole section.

> Also, how can I create
> one index from multiple Articles? Thanks!!

Multiple and contiguous? Same as above.

Otherwise, I'm not sure if there's a good solution. You can try what
happens if you hide a whole section/article, maybe that way INDEX won't
pick up its XE fields? Else, you would probably need additional XE
fields with identifiers (check XE field code switches ...).

HTH
Robert

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