Wayne, I am sure I did close it down some of the times, but not every time. I was just speaking with George Elting who reminded me of the memory resident capabilities of Word :). The one thing I was doing also was as I reviewed the book, I would find entries which had NOT been marked so I copied and pasted them into a "NEW" concordance file. I would continue my review, deleteing marks as necessary. Then I would go down to the beginning of the index on screen, highlite to the end, then delete. Once that was done, I would go back to the place I wanrted the index to start and do an INSERT-INDEX and TABLES-AUTOMARK with my newly built concordance file.. After reporting my problem to the board, I found out that all I had to do was place my cursor in the index area towards the left side and press F9. It would update the index but I am not sure at this time if that method is working properly or not. I am beginning to believe my problem was in the method I was first using and not always closing the document. Jim Elting (704) 544-7559 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Wayne League [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FO] Index Markings in Books "James Elting" <[email protected]> wrote: >However, when I perform the mark index function again (with just my >new entries) some of those people whom I deleted the markings show back up >again as marked. Did you resave the document after you had deleted all the markings? Close down the document or even the whole program and reopen the resaved document? Doing all that should eliminate all the deleted marks. Wayne League ______________________________