Getting Started with Word animation Tutorial 99: Automatically mark index entries

By creating an index file, you can automatically mark an index entry. An index file is a Word document, the primary content being a two-column table, the first column is the text or symbol that is indexed, and the second is the index entry text. The steps to automatically mark an index entry are as follows:

1. Create a new document.

2. Insert a two-column table in the document.

3. In cell A1, type the text you want to index.

4. Type the index entry for the text in the first column in cell B1. Where, separated by ":", you can also add a secondary index entry and a level three index entry.

Tip: You can quickly and accurately create an indexed document by opening the new document side-by-page and the document to be indexed, copying the text from the latter to the left column of the former table.

5. Follow the steps above to continue adding additional index text and index entries.

6. Save the index file.

7. Open the document you want to index.

8. Execute "Insert" → "reference" → "index and table of contents" → "Index" tab, click the Auto Tag button, select the index file you want to use in the Open Index Auto Tag File dialog box, click the Open button, and Word searches the entire document for the exact location of the text in the first column of the index file. The text in the second column is used as the index entry mark, and the number of tagged index entries is displayed in the status bar when all is complete.

Note: If a text repeats repeatedly in one paragraph, word only marks its first occurrence in this paragraph.

The animation of the specific operation process is as follows:

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