Word / Office 2010 windows.
Using word doc to create notes as I research a large book. In the book I am noticing several themes I would like to isolate and study.

Example:
I'm making notes and come to a paragraph that discusses "politics". As I start my notes on that paragraph, I would like to access a predefined, by me, drop down list that has say 8 topics to select from, "politics" "art" "music" etc. I would then select "politics" to place a marker at this point in my notes doc. Later when I have 50 pages of notes, I would like to be able to jump to each point in the notes where I have selected politics. This way I can isolate and study that theme independently of all other thoughts.

I suspect there is an easy way to do this but I am not really up to speed on Word's functions. Any help will certainly be appreciated.

Thanks!


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Consider using custom paragraph styles based on your body text style.
Topic-Politics, Topic-Art, Topic-Music, etc.
You can then search by style using advanced find.

Was hoping to find something more simple. Right now I'm just typing the word, art, politics, etc at the end on the sentence and then just using a word search. That's ok but I would love to have some kind of drop down list.

For that sort of thing to be built-in, you would want a database program.

OneNote is possibly the best place for your notes to be collated so you can organise them into a more logical grouping. Have you considered that Application?

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