My headers/footers do not have the 'same as previous' attribute. Every chapter is different, and within the chapter the 1st page as well as even and odd pages are different. It creates quite a job to add all these hyphens by hand. I will do it. But I would have thought that Word would have provision to allow for automatic hyphenation in the text of the book without having that hyphenation carry over to the index. Hyphens are commonly used for page numbers especially in footers, so it is appropriate that Word has this option to implement it automatically; and yet it is obvious that on one would want that hyphenation to appear in their index.

I tried it again this morning, and it is working indeed. Thank you. Doing it by hand just now, it appears that at least from pages 11-19 the hyphens do not appear perfectly symmetrically arranged (on the left and right of the page number) the way they were when it was done automatically. But it will have to do.

I am a novice at this, please don't mind my foolish questions on this point: I could not understand where the "Index field" is. I went to the actual created index at the back of my document, but there didn't seem to be any fields in it. Are you referring to the "document" you've mentioned below? If so, please see my reply below, as I could not understand where to create that document.

Again, please don't mind my foolishness here, I am a novice at this. When I go to References|Insert Index>Automark, I get a browser window and I browse to my Notepad file containing the word list I created, and it makes the index. Where does this two column table get created?