Writer Guide

Adding index entries
Before you can create an index, you must create some index entries.
1) Either highlight the word or phrase to add to the index or place
the cursor at the beginning of the word or phrase. (If you want to
add multiple words as one entry it will generally be better to
highlight the entire phrase.)
2) Click Insert > Indexes and Tables > Entry to display a dialog
box similar to that shown in Figure 338. You can accept the word
or phrase shown in the Entry box or change it to whatever you
want. If you placed the cursor at the beginning of a word, clicking
on the Entry text box inserts the word into the text box.
Figure 338. Inserting an index entry
3) Click Insert to create the entry.
5) You can create multiple entries without closing the dialog box. For
each one:
• Click at the location in the document that you want to index.
• Click again on the dialog box.
• Change the entry if needed, and click Insert.
6) When you are satisfied with the entries, click Close.
Note
If field shading is active (see Tools > Options >
OpenOffice.org > Appearance > Text Document > Field
shadings), when a selected word or phrase has been added to
the index, it is shown in the text with a gray background. Index
entries whose text is different from the text in the document
are marked by a small gray rectangle.
390 OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide