Problem with Index in MS Word

[anniesolomon]

I have a strange entry (Lo3) in my index and can't figure out how to get rid of it. There's no associated page number. I've searched my document for Lo3 but found nothing. I can delete it from the index but as soon as I update/refresh (F9) the index the entry reappears! I've attached a copy of the page from my index in the hope that it will look familiar to somebody.

 

[anniesolomon]

I figured it out. It was a legitimate index entry (the Spanish word "lo" as an object). For some reason the field got hosed. I deleted the entry, recreated it, and voila! It's all good now.

 

[macropod]

Simply refreshing the Index, be clicking in it and pressing F9, should have been sufficient to delete the hosed reference.

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[anniesolomon]

Well, Paul, I guess you didn't read my posts very well. I did refresh the index by clicking in it and then pressing F9. The reason it didn't delete the "hosed" reference is because it was a legitimate reference. For some reason, the index entry didn't recognize the leading dots before the page number so it looked like Lo3 instead of Lo..........3. Once I realized that, I simply deleted the index entry and recreated it. So, all is good!

 

[macropod]

If the problem was with the lack of a tab between the Lo and the 3, that suggests the problem was with the way you had the index formatted. However, since your attachment merely showed a picture of the Index, rather than being a document with an Index, and there is nothing to show what was selected when you took the snapshot, it's impossible to know for sure. Updating the Index should have been sufficient to rectify the problem and, if deleting the Index then recreating it solved the problem, that merely confirms that the issue was a formatting one (most likely to do with an errant tab stop). It also strongly suggests you had not updated the Index, despite your protest to the contrary, since doing so would rectify the tabs...

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]