Indexing a Word 2007 Document

If you're working on a lengthy document or a book, you'll want to create an index for it. An index will help readers locate specific portions of your document or book easily.

Creating an index for a document can involve a lot of long, hard, tedious work. Fortunately, Word includes tools that will help you create your index. This will greatly simplify the creation of your index.

To create your index, you must first mark the index entries. You can mark individual words and phrases. You can also mark a block of text that spans a range of pages.

After you mark your index entries, you can select a design for your index and insert the index in your document. Word will create the index, gathering the entries you marked. It will also insert the page numbers and remove any duplicate entries that appear on the same page.

To learn how to create an index for your Word 2007 document, keep reading.