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From: sharon@athertn.Atherton.COM (Sharon Veach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Help with MS Word 4.0
Keywords: Indexing and Tables
Message-ID: <27967@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 90 16:13:01 GMT
References: <1990Jul28.114105.17860@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: sharon@Atherton.COM (Sharon Veach)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1990Jul28.114105.17860@athena.mit.edu> bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu) writes:
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>In Word, she wants to combine all the indexes for each chapter into
>one Big index (to be located at the end of the book).  

Use the "Next" menu item in Page setup to let the system process the
chapters in order.  The indexer should then "do the right thing".  
Be warned -- previous (Microsoft Word 3.02) versions of the index
processing facility were unable to handle large indices.  IF you have
not used sub-index headings (I forget the proper name for this) you
could probably process some of the indices separately, then "Sort" 
them from the Utilities menu.

>	Alternatively, should she merge all the chapters?

Word will run out of memory/power to do anything.  The book would then
be uneditable, unsavable, un-indexed, in brief, hosed.

>	Her second problem is with Tables.  She used the Insert Table 
>command to start a 2-column table.  She then started typing away.  
>After she typed in approximately 100 entries (rows), she goes into
>the PageView mode.  However, she can only see the first 25 rows.  In other
>words, she can only see page 1.  Page 2 and the rest are blank.  Somehow
>Word put all her entires into page 1, but because she has so many entires,
>only the first 25 rows show up on page 1.  

Your safest option, since I don't know what setting is causing this
problem, is to create 4 Tables of 25 entries each.  The easiest way to do
this is to go to the first 25 entries, and drag the mouse from the left-most
column in row 1 to the lastmost column in row 25, Copy it, go to a place
that has a paragraph marker NOT associated with the 100-entry table, and
do a Put/Paste (i forget the word on the menu -- it's Control-V).

Repeat this for the rest of the table.  If you want it to look a little
nicer, I'ld make each table 20 rows long -- this lets you put a 
running caption on each page letting folks know what they are looking at.
Note that when there are tables, the Preview page will not let you
reset the page delimiters.  Dunno why.

Good luck.

Sharon -- not a company spokesperson