Writer Guide

Tip
You can also open the Insert Index Entry dialog box by clicking
the Entry icon on the Insert toolbar, as shown in Figure 339.
Figure 339. Entry icon on Insert toolbar
Creating an alphabetic index quickly
Now that there are index entries, you can create the index.
Although indexes can be customized extensively in Writer, most of the
time you will need to make only a few choices. To create an index
quickly:
1) Place the cursor where you want to add the index and click
Insert > Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables.
2) In the Type box on the Index/Table page of the Insert Index/Table
dialog box (Figure 340 on page 393), select Alphabetical Index.
3) In the Options section, you may want to uncheck Case sensitive.
4) Click OK.
If you add, delete, or change the text of index entries, you need to
update the index. Writer does not update an index automatically. To do
this, follow the steps outlined in “Updating a table of contents” on page
389.
Customizing index entries
Below is a brief explanation of the fields in the Insert Index Entry
dialog box and how to use them.
• Index – The type of index this entry is for. The default is
Alphabetical Index, but you can use this field to create extra
entries for a table of contents or user-defined indexes or lists of
almost anything. For example, you might want an index
containing only the scientific names of species mentioned in the
text, and a separate index containing only the common names of
species. See “Other types of indexes” on page 398.
• Entry – The word or phrase to be added to the selected index.
This word or phrase does not need to be in the document itself;
you can add synonyms and other terms that you want to appear in
the index.
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