[libreoffice-users] Writer indexing facilities

I'm moving over from my old Word for Windows 2003 to LibreOffice Writer 
5.1.4.2 on Ubuntu Studio.

I want to be able to do everything I could do on Word in Writer, but I'm 
having problems with the alphabetical indexing facilities. I once 
indexed a book using a macro on Word from the American Society of 
Indexers, and it worked well. I've followed the Documentation for 
Writer, but am not sure whether I'm missing something, whether there's a 
bug, or whether I should be looking for some other programme or add-on.

Is there some user's guide written from the point of view of an indexer?

For instance, in trying it out, I indexed the term 'Blair' and selected 
'Apply to all similar texts'. Then I compiled the alphabetical index and 
found 60 entries for 'Blair'. This tells me that I need ten or so 
sub-headings in the index. So, using the editing window, I tried to edit 
each entry. I need to step through them. This I can do if I just need to 
view the entries, but as soon as I edit an entry the step-through 
doesn't work any longer; it moves onto the next indexed term whether or 
not it's 'Blair'. So I have to step through all the other terms until I 
reach 'Blair'. I tried instead using the 'Find' option to get to the 
next 'Blair', but that is disabled as long as the edit window is 
showing. So I have to close the edit window, search for the next 'Blair' 
using 'Find', then call up the edit window. The whole procedure takes 15 
secs, and so going through 60 terms would take 15 mins. I can't find any 
means of deleting the whole lot and starting again, other than deleting 
them individually, in which case I run into the same problem.

Can anyone please advise?

Many thanks,
Ian

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