Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Writer indexing facilities

       Sounds as if you must have uncovered a bug in the system  ;-(

       This is one of the things I thought LO could do,
          but preferring to manually do so myself, I've never checked out
LO's method;
         maybe my method takes a few seconds longer, but i know it's done
according to my preferences.

       Here's hoping someone will respond to you anon, so you too may enjoy
LO,



From: Ian Fantom <ian@fantom.org.uk>
Date: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Writer indexing facilities
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


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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