Indexing - Global refresh/deletion of index marks

Ray Cleere

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Apr 30, 2004, 6:10:21 AM4/30/04

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I'm using MSWord 2001.

I'm trying delete existing index marks in a particular
document, of which there are hundreds.

There does not appear to be a facility in the insert/index
and tables dialog to facilitate this.

Updating index marks via a concordance table (automarking)
is appending new index marks to existing index marks at
the location - it does not do a total refresh.

Using edit/find&replace also does not appear to facilitate
location of index marks. I think I have tried all options
at this dialog, and in combination with changes made at
the tools/options/view/edit or show levels.

The index marks themselves are non-printing characters
obviously, and using the show/hide button displays the
index marks (which are not hidden at the font level), but
they do not appear in the special [system ^ characters]
drop-down list in the edit/find dialog.

Anyone any ideas on how I can go about doing a total
refresh of my index marks directly (using a table), or a
total delete of existing marks, maybe via some new
functionality in later versions of word or by pointing out
something I haven't yet tried with my existing ver?

Thanks
Ray.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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Apr 30, 2004, 8:16:55 AM4/30/04

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Use the following code in a macro

Dim AIM As Field
For Each AIM In ActiveDocument.Fields
If AIM.Type = wdFieldIndexEntry Then
AIM.Delete
End If
Next

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Apr 30, 2004, 11:31:04 AM4/30/04

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Display Hidden text. Then use Find and Replace to search for ^19 XE and
replace with nothing. This will remove *all* index entries fields.

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Ray Cleere

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Apr 30, 2004, 5:46:18 AM4/30/04

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I'm using MSWord 2001.

I'm trying delete existing index marks in a particular document, of
which there are hundreds.

There does not appear to be a facility in the insert/index and tables
dialog to facilitate this.

Updating index marks via a concordance table (automarking) is appending
new index marks to existing index marks at the location - it does not
do a total refresh.

Using edit/find&replace also does not appear to facilitate location of
index marks. I think I have tried all options at this dialog, and in
combination with changes made at the tools/options/view/edit or show
levels.

The index marks themselves are non-printing characters obviously, and
using the show/hide button displays the index marks (which are not
hidden at the font level), but they do not appear in the special
[system ^ characters] drop-down list in the edit/find dialog.

Anyone any ideas on how I can go about doing a total refresh of my
index marks directly (using a table), or a total delete of existing
marks, maybe via some new functionality in later versions of word or by
pointing out something I haven't yet tried with my existing ver?

Thanks
Ray.

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