1] Mark Your Index Entries. Word can build your index automatically, but it’s smart enough to know which items you want in it. So for users to create an index, they will need to mark the entries.

With an index, finding topics in your Word document becomes a smooth scroll instead of a needle-in-a-haystack hunt.

Add two indexes to the same document using the bookmark switch, \b. The \b switch tells Word to restrict the index to marked terms in the bookmarked sections.

Numbered index pages in a long Microsoft Word 2010 document can help your reader quickly find information; but if you add the index to the beginning of a document, it can throw off.

To add leaders to a table of contents or an index in Word, use that feature to do so — both have leader settings. Subscribe to the Developer Insider Newsletter ...

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