Anne, I couldn't have said it better myself. I used to have a text file stored for pasting in to answer this question, but when I went to get the file, I found it was based on WP5.1 DOS. Whew! Anyway, I would add ONE THING. Spend some time, BEFORE making your index, checking indentations throughout the entire document. Unexpected hard returns in your source citations and notes can destroy your format right in the middle of a page. Easy to fix, of course, with a perfectly placed F7, but if there are several of these, they will affect your pagination. IF YOU HAVE a problem with hanging indents in your index (surname prints in the left margain) after you generate it, simply search and replace for the style code, removing the style code completely. Should line up nicely. Also, if you have long names which won't fit across your nicely formatted newspaper columns, you will want to force some hard returns in the index to put the given names on another line. I guess that was TWO more things. Heh. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ackruszka@wmconnect.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: [FO] Generating an index in WordPerfect > Carol S. of the Irish Hills, MI and I sat down today at our mutual volunteer > site today and figured out how to generate an index in WordPerfect. > > 1. Generate a Rich Text Format (rtf) in FO. > 2. Open it in WP. > 3. Go to the very end of the report AFTER the word "Index" > 4. In WP click on Tools - Reference - Index > 5. Define your index > 6. Generate the index > > After you've done this your index will probably be in a large font. Before > your first entry, click on the font size you want. Then to put in columns do > the following: > > 1. Click on Format > 2. Columns > 3. choose number of columns. > 4. Click ok. > > Anne K. > Livonia, MI > > > > > Anne (Percival) Kruszka > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ > >