Author wants to tag and retrieve dialog for a character

Charles Kenyon · #1 02-28-2020, 11:50 AM

There is nothing build into Word to do this directly.

You could mark them using the Index feature and use that to pull them together.
Indices - Complex Documents
The main category would be the character name.
The dialog itself would be the entry.

That is the closest to an automatic feature I can think of.

George Pond · #2 03-01-2020, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon

There is nothing build into Word to do this directly.

You could mark them using the Index feature and use that to pull them together.
Indices - Complex Documents
The main category would be the character name.
The dialog itself would be the entry.

That is the closest to an automatic feature I can think of.

Thank you for taking the time to reply! I was blown-away by the creative solutions, and so quickly. I wound up using paragraph styles and a custom TOC, which is working well for me.

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