transferring index contents into text file "Jeff" <jeff[ at ]naol.com> 6/20/2007 11:28:34 PM Hi I am trying to extract the contents of an index Word 2002 created into a simple text file I can send to the book publishers who need it as a PC file. When I copy and paste the index into a new separate Word file and then try to print it, the new index changes into an error message. How can I create a new file containing the index text formatted the way it is presently formatted in the original document? Thank you.

Re: transferring index contents into text file "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" <garfieldnodie[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> 6/21/2007 1:16:20 AM Open the document that contains the index. Select the index. Press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert the index field to ordinary text. Copy and paste the index text to a new document. Close the original document without saving changes. Jeff wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi > > I am trying to extract the contents of an index Word 2002 created into a > simple text file I can send to the book publishers who need it as a PC > file. When I copy and paste the index into a new separate Word file and > then try to print it, the new index changes into an error message. > > How can I create a new file containing the index text formatted the way > it is presently formatted in the original document? > > Thank you. > >

Re: transferring index contents into text file "Jeff" <jeff[ at ]naol.com> 6/21/2007 3:11:14 AM Aha! Thank you. Jeff garfield-n-odie [MVP] wrote: [Quoted Text] > Open the document that contains the index. Select the index. Press > Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert the index field to ordinary text. Copy and > paste the index text to a new document. Close the original document > without saving changes. > > Jeff wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am trying to extract the contents of an index Word 2002 created >> into a simple text file I can send to the book publishers who need >> it as a PC file. When I copy and paste the index into a new >> separate Word file and then try to print it, the new index changes >> into an error message. How can I create a new file containing the >> index text formatted the >> way it is presently formatted in the original document? >> >> Thank you.

Re: transferring index contents into text file "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 6/21/2007 4:32:14 AM You can equally well copy and paste the "live" index into a new document; just unlink it before you print (printing updates fields). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jeff" <jeff[ at ]naol.com> wrote in message news:%238ucaH7sHHA.3504[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Aha! Thank you. > > Jeff > > garfield-n-odie [MVP] wrote: > > Open the document that contains the index. Select the index. Press > > Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert the index field to ordinary text. Copy and > > paste the index text to a new document. Close the original document > > without saving changes. > > > > Jeff wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I am trying to extract the contents of an index Word 2002 created > >> into a simple text file I can send to the book publishers who need > >> it as a PC file. When I copy and paste the index into a new > >> separate Word file and then try to print it, the new index changes > >> into an error message. How can I create a new file containing the > >> index text formatted the > >> way it is presently formatted in the original document? > >> > >> Thank you. > >

Re: transferring index contents into text file "Jeff" <jeff[ at ]naol.com> 6/21/2007 6:57:35 AM Thank you Suzanne. Is it Ctrl+Shift+F9 that unlinks it? Thanks. Jeff Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: [Quoted Text] > You can equally well copy and paste the "live" index into a new > document; just unlink it before you print (printing updates fields). > > > "Jeff" <jeff[ at ]naol.com> wrote in message > news:%238ucaH7sHHA.3504[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Aha! Thank you. >> >> Jeff >> >> garfield-n-odie [MVP] wrote: >>> Open the document that contains the index. Select the index. Press >>> Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert the index field to ordinary text. Copy and >>> paste the index text to a new document. Close the original document >>> without saving changes. >>> >>> Jeff wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I am trying to extract the contents of an index Word 2002 created >>>> into a simple text file I can send to the book publishers who need >>>> it as a PC file. When I copy and paste the index into a new >>>> separate Word file and then try to print it, the new index changes >>>> into an error message. How can I create a new file containing the >>>> index text formatted the >>>> way it is presently formatted in the original document? >>>> >>>> Thank you.

Re: transferring index contents into text file "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" <garfieldnodie[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> 6/21/2007 7:54:26 AM Yes. Jeff wrote: [Quoted Text] > Thank you Suzanne. Is it Ctrl+Shift+F9 that unlinks it? > > Thanks. > > Jeff > > Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: > >>You can equally well copy and paste the "live" index into a new >>document; just unlink it before you print (printing updates fields). >> >> >>"Jeff" <jeff[ at ]naol.com> wrote in message >>news:%238ucaH7sHHA.3504[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> >>>Aha! Thank you. >>> >>>Jeff >>> >>>garfield-n-odie [MVP] wrote: >>> >>>>Open the document that contains the index. Select the index. Press >>>>Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert the index field to ordinary text. Copy and >>>>paste the index text to a new document. Close the original document >>>>without saving changes. >>>> >>>>Jeff wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hi >>>>> >>>>>I am trying to extract the contents of an index Word 2002 created >>>>>into a simple text file I can send to the book publishers who need >>>>>it as a PC file. When I copy and paste the index into a new >>>>>separate Word file and then try to print it, the new index changes >>>>>into an error message. How can I create a new file containing the >>>>>index text formatted the >>>>>way it is presently formatted in the original document? >>>>> >>>>>Thank you. > > >