Best Practice for Indexing Multiple Word Terms and Sub-Terms

[jhy001]

I am wondering how to best index a multiple word term that also contains a sub-term that is to appear in the index. For example: "Philadelphia Railroad Commission".

I'd want to index the three word term, but also "Philadelphia" and "Railroad" as separate index entries.

After indexing the three word term, I trying to index one word fails (it seems).

Is it possible to nest or concatenate multiple {} index entries?



Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

John

[macropod]

It's not clear what you're doing, but I have no trouble indexing 'Philadelphia', 'Philadelphia Railroad', 'Railroad', & 'Philadelphia Railroad Commission' for the relevant parts of the same 'Philadelphia Railroad Commission' string, as well as making nested index entries such as 'Philadelphia:Railroad Commission'.

[Charles Kenyon]

Just make three entries.
Indices - Complex Documents

[jhy001]

I experimented a bit and found that the {} entries can be catenated. I found to do that easily, if you first indexed only one word, you have to go to Home and click on "P" to get rid of the mark-up, then you can select the full three words easily in References -> Mark Entry. I didn't think to do this, and it made it impossible to select the three word string because of the mark-up in the middle.

But another problem in the way was and is that sometimes I select something, even a single word, and Mark All fails with nothing to mark, or something like that. I have now learned to just Mark that single entry and carry on. That succeeds. But it seems like a bug that Mark All fails, yet a single Mark succeeds. Odd.

Also, in my google reading on this, I saw someone post in about 2012 that to get index page numbering correct, YOU MUST TURN OFF the "P" mark-up display BEFORE doing Update Index for long documents. Surely this bug has been fixed in Word 2016???

Thanks for the replies. I think I've learned how to get around the issues I've encountered on this.

John

[Charles Kenyon]

You do not have to select anything to insert an index entry. Simply tell Word to mark an entry at the insertion point and type in what you want the entry to say.