Create Index

English translation: Cross Reference

03:51 Aug 18, 2001
German to English translations [PRO]
German term or phrase: Create Index
This is a technical question; but I am sure somebody has an answer:
Is it possible to "create" an index (via the Insert menu) in MS Word 2000 using the paragraph numbers as refrence rather than the page numbers?
If so, how do I do this, please?
Antoinette-M. Sixt Ruth
Local time: 16:21
English translation:Cross Reference
Explanation:
You could create a table with two columns. In the first column you type the name (or use a cross reference: (insert /cross reference/heading/ heading text) and in the second one you use a cross reference to the paragraph number (insert /cross reference/numbered item/paragraph number)
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Andy Lemminger
Canada
Local time: 15:21
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Thank you very much; I had already thought that the table solution would be best.
Antoinette
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na +1Cross Reference
Andy Lemminger
naCreate table of index / contents
Alexander Schleber (X)


  

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Create table of index / contents


Explanation:
No.
If you want to mark words in a paragraph, and then insert thzese in an index, you can do this, but not with the paragraph numbers. Such numbers are only assigned by way of a table of contents, where links are created to the numbered title of a paragraph.
One solution for you may be the creation of footnotes for each word, or perhapds a cross-reference to the next usage of a term.
To my knowledge, the index function itself does not permit a different key than the page number.


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Alexander Schleber (X)
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Cross Reference


Explanation:
You could create a table with two columns. In the first column you type the name (or use a cross reference: (insert /cross reference/heading/ heading text) and in the second one you use a cross reference to the paragraph number (insert /cross reference/numbered item/paragraph number)


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Andy Lemminger
Canada
Local time: 15:21
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 1127
Grading comment
Thank you very much; I had already thought that the table solution would be best.
Antoinette

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexander Schleber (X): Possible, but not very handy. Fully manual.
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