Not saying Windows is objectively worse in any of those things, but everything from Mac to Linux all work largely the same, and Windows would require me to possibly relearn a lot of that or jump through hoops to make what I already know work on Windows. Thanks for the response! The Version is 12.2.3 (091001) The style just says 'normal', and its the most common bullet points. Font is New Times Roman.
Perhaps you’re working on a long document in Word in which you want an index with page numbers. Word in Office 2011 for Mac can automate this task for you. This procedure entails three steps:
- Generate a table of words or phrases to be indexed, saved as a special file called a concordance file.
- Mark the words or phrases to be used in the index.
- Generate the index.
Making a table of words and phrases to index
Word is pretty smart, but you need to tell Word the words or phrases to use in the index, and which index headings to make. You tell Word the words or phrases to be used in the index by creating a concordance file. Follow these steps to create a concordance table:
- In Word, choose File→New Blank Document.
- From the menu, choose Table→Insert→Table.
- In the Insert Table dialog, set Number of Columns to 2.
- Click OK to close the Insert Table dialog.
- Fill in the cells:Left column:Put all the words from your document that should be marked for indexing into the left column, one word or phrase per cell.Right column: Enter the appropriate document index heading corresponding to each word in the left column.Don’t use column headings: Nothing else can be in the concordance file except your two-column table.
- Choose File→Save to save the table as a Word document and then choose File→Close to close the concordance table document.
Marking the words or phrases to use in the index
After you save your concordance file, you can use it to create an index from a long document. Follow these steps to use a concordance file:
- In Word, choose File→Open.
- Select the Word document you want to index but don’t open it yet.
- In the File Open dialog, choose Copy from the Open pop-up menu and then click the Open button to open a copy of the document that you want to index.
- In the copy of your document, choose Insert→Index and Tables.
- Click the Index tab and then click the AutoMark button.
- Navigate to the concordance file you saved earlier and then click the Open button.
Generating the index
The following steps create the index:
- Click in your document to set the insertion cursor to the place where you want to create the index.
- In Word, choose Insert→Index and Tables.
- Click the Index tab if it isn’t selected already.
- Choose the type, format, tab leader style, and so on; or go with the default settings to format your index.
- After you make all your choices, click OK.
When you make your index, think about how you want subheadings to work in your document. Experiment freely until you get just the right result.