Does anyone know of a way (Macro?) to go over the doc, pick out text formatted with a certain style and then build a table with the text of all the instances of that style and the page No they are on?



I know this is really exactly what inserting an index field ({XE....}) will do, but as I write and write fast, stopping to insert index fields breaks my concentration and I don't have patients at this time to go back and do this...

Thank you...

Susan

Use a custom Table of Contents that refers to that Style.

Word Indexes cannot do as you require unless you manually attach XE fields to every instance of the Style concerned.

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Paul Edstein
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Thought about that. But as I see (am I blind and missing something?) Word will only build a custom TOC based on Paragraph style not on Char styles, right? I need the text of a char style (there are multiple instances of this char style in paragraphs)

Correct, but your post didn't say anything about using character Styles.

That said, you could create a suitable paragraph Style and use Style separators instead of paragraph breaks so that paragraphs in that Style appear to be part of the paragraph before/after that content.

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Paul Edstein
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Here is more about the Style Separator.
See also: TOC Tips and Tricks by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP