Writer Guide

Maintaining an index
To modify the appearance of an index:
1) Right-click anywhere in the index.
2) From the pop-up menu, choose Edit Index/Table. The Insert Index/Table
dialog box opens and you can edit and save the index using the five tabs
described in the previous section.
To update or delete an index, follow the process described in the sections “Updating
a table of contents” and “Deleting a table of contents” on page 341.
Viewing and editing existing index entries
Once you have added the initial entries, you can make some amendments or add
some new ones. You can view and edit these using the following steps:
1) Ensure that field shading is active (Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org>
Appearance > Text Document > Field shadings), so you can locate index
entries more easily.
2) Place the cursor immediately to the left of an existing index entry in the body
of your document and select Edit > Index Entry. Alternatively, right-click on
the word or phrase and from the pop-up menu select Index Entry.
3) A dialog box similar to Figure 346 appears. You can move through the various
index entries using the forward and back arrow buttons. If there is more than
one entry for a single word or phrase, then you can scroll through each of the
entries.
4) Make the necessary modifications or additions to the index entries and, when
finished, click OK.
Figure 346. Viewing and editing index entries
Other types of indexes
An alphabetical index is not the only type of index that you can build with Writer.
Other types of indexes supplied with Writer include those for illustrations, tables, and
objects, and you can even create a user-defined index. This chapter does not give
examples of all the possibilities.
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