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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT(?) - reports in MS Word
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:25:47 -0800
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020403135215.00a7e210@ccimap.in2p3.fr>


John - Make sure that you have turned off all field codes, both by clicking
on the Show-Hide button (looks like a paragraph symbol on your toolbar).
Also go to Tools>Options and make sure that the box next to Field Codes does
not have a check mark next to it.

Rather than trying to update the existing index, I would suggest that you
delete the existing index and regenerate. Locate the cursor where you want
the index and go to Insert>Tables and Indexes and create a new one.

It appears that the problem occurred because you apparently generated your
index before you formatted the pages allowing for double-sides printing and
binding edge. All of these changes must be done before you generate . . .
always. Are you sure that you didn't accidentally do Ctrl-F9, instead of
just F9? Ctrl-F9 turns all variable field coded information into hard text.
If you did that you got the hard text and then when Word repaginated, the
hard text couldn't be updated to reflect the new pagination.

Don't despair. It is fixable.

CheriC
IBSSG =^..^=

-----Original Message-----
From: John O'Neall [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:58 AM
To:
Subject: [TMG] OT(?) - reports in MS Word


I have produced a fairly large descendant journal report (~150 pages +
index) with an index to surnames with years of birth and death. I have
then exported this to MS Word and formatted the pages for recto-versa
printing, with space for binding on alternate sides of the pages.

Now, of course, my index is no longer good since things have changed pages.
Following Microsoft's (minimal) help, I select the index (all of it;
previous trials with only part didn't help a bit) and hit F9. Several
minutes later (400 MHz CPU), it starts telling me it's repaging the
document! It does and afterwards nothing is on the same page any
more. AND the index is _not_ good: It now points to where things actually
were before I hit F9 (and after my reformatting). In other words, the
index is now what I wanted, but the document is not. The short result is
that the index is still incorrect.

Am I banging my head against a brick wall or is there a way to make this
monster work? Or should I go purchase WordPerfect? Or give up and skip
the index?

Thanks in advance for words of wisdom. John

John O'Neall
Genas, France
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~joneall/


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