Forum Discussion
Indexing in Word for iMac
I see the Styles can be modified, but can't understand how it helps. Common names are never italicized while scientific names must be. But some common and scientific names are primary entries, while some common and scientific names are subentries. In other words, common and scientific names are, in some cases, both primary entry and subentry. How do styles allow both entries, like these....
Algae (main topic, common name)
Amoeba ( main topic, scientific name)
Okay. How do I then reverse that to build a new index of only scientific names?
maybe that's the easiest way...TWO indexes. Is that possible without re-XE-ing the entire manuscript?
ed1948 What you might have to do is, when you have completed editing the document, select the Index and use Cmd+6 to unlink it from it sources and convert it to ordinary Text. Then if you apply Italic formatting where required, it will not longer revert when the fields in the document are updated.
That sounds like the right solution! Since I decided to simplify and generate a scientific name only index,
which worked perfectly, now I can un-hook and do a subject index. Thanks.
Is there a source book that explains all this, like the good old days when public could by those three
-inch thick manuals at Barnes and Noble? I keep running into problems Chat folks, help files don't help with.
Ed
