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From: "John O'Neall" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT(?) - reports in MS Word
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:26:07 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <BBELINAJCPNPOALLDGONAEHLCMAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Thank you, all. Deleting the index, formatting the file, and the
re-inserting the index did the trick. Funny behavior, but then why make
things complicated when....

Thanks again. John

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