In a long Word document indexing inserts information for all items and thereby changes the page layout, resulting in cumulatively incorrect page numbering. Question: how to do indexing WITHOUT Word inserting information in the body of the text for every indeed item? If this cannot be done then the entire automated indexing process is useless.
Hi Peter,
My page numbers are all wrong!
If almost all of your page numbers are coming out wrong when you generate your index, then you've stumbled across one of the stupidest side-effects of Word's indexing functionality. It turns out that you have to hide your index to make it generate accurately. Can we say "counter-intuitive"?
Basically, you can't let the {XE} fields that you use to build the index mess up your final pagination. The way to avoid this is to generate your index only when all hidden text (paragraph markers, XE fields, etc.) are hidden. Then your pagination will match. For example, if you have a paragraph that looks like this:
http://taxonomist.tripod.com/indexing/wordproblems.html#wrongnumbers
https://wordribbon.tips.net/T009718_Improper_Index_Page_Numbers.html
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