Thankfully you’ve got the option to automatically create an index table in Word.
Generating the Index
Let’s start by creating a two column table in our concordance file.
Write the words that you would like to be marked for indexing in the left column.
shut the concordance file and open your master document’s reference tab to index our master document.
We can hide these fields by clicking the Show/Hide Paragraph button in the home tab.
That’s all we have on how to create an index table with a concordance file.
Let’s take a closer look on how we can customize the index style.
Creating Cross References in the Index
Word allows us to create different punch in of index.
Word will treat any words that come after the colon as a sub-entry in the index.
We have to use a Visual Basic script to reset the index fields in our document.
Most of you must be thinking Visual Basic Script, I am not a programmer !
What is that ?.
Dont worry its not as bad as it sounds.
fire up the Visual Basic editor by pressing Alt+F11 and place this script into the editor.
Execute the script by clicking the “run button” to clean the master document’s index fields.
Your master document should no longer have any index fields.
We can now re-index the master document and recreate the index table using the “Insert Index” menu.
Can I change the way it looks to make it more appealing ?.
The answer is yes, index table does not have to look plain.
Here is an example on how the Classic index format looks like.
Choose one of the available index styles and hit the “Modify” button to make our own style.
We can adjust the index table’s font style.
