Insert or Edit Index Entry/text/swriter/01/04120100.xhpSun Microsystems, Inc.
Insert or Edit Index Entry
Marks the selected text as index or table of contents entry or edits the selected index entry.Insert:Edit:You can leave the Insert Index Entry and Edit Index Entry dialogs open while you select and insert or edit entries.
Index
Select the index that you want to add the entry to.When editing an index entry, displays the type of index that the selected entry belongs to. You cannot change the index type of an index entry in this dialog. Instead, you must delete the index entry from the document, and then insert it again in a different index type.
New user-defined index
Opens the Create New User-defined Index dialog where you can create a custom index.
New User-defined Index IconNew User-defined Index
Name
Enter a name for the new user-defined index. The new index is added to the list of available indexes and tables.
Entry
Displays the text that is selected in the document. If you want, you can enter a different word for the index entry. The selected text in the document is not changed.Or, edit the index entry if necessary. When you modify the index entry, the new text only appears in the index, and not at the index entry anchor in the document. For example, you can enter an index with comments such as "Basics, see also General".
Update entry from selection
Click the icon to update Entry with the current text selection in the document.
Update Entry from Selection IconUpdate Entry from Selection
1st key
Makes the current selection a subentry of the word that you enter here. For example, if you select "cold", and enter "weather" as the 1st key, the index entry is "weather, cold".
2nd key
Makes the current selection a sub-subentry of the 1st key. For example, if you select "cold", and enter "weather" as the 1st key and "winter" as the 2nd key, the index entry is "weather, winter, cold".
Phonetic reading
Enter the phonetic reading for the corresponding entry. For example, if a Japanese Kanji word has more than one pronunciation, enter the correct pronunciation as a Katakana word. The Kanji word is then sorted according to the phonetic reading entry. This option is only available if Asian language support is enabled.
Main Entry
Makes the selected text the main entry in an alphabetical index. $[officename] displays the page number of the main entry in a different format than the other entries in the index.
Index level
Specify the index level for the inserted index entry.This option is available only for table of contents and user-defined index entries.
For Selected Entry
The following three options are available when a text selection is loaded in Entry, either by selecting the text in the document and then opening the dialog, or by using Update entry from selection in the dialog.
Apply to all other occurrences
Automatically marks all other occurrences of the selected text in the document. For a modified entry, the match is conducted on the original selection, but the modified entry is inserted as the index entry. Text in headers, footers, and frames is not included.
Whole words only
Match case
To include all occurrences of a text passage in an index, select the text, choose Edit - Find & Replace, and click Find All. Then choose Insert - Table of Contents and Index - Index Entry and click Insert.
Insert
Marks an index entry in your text.
Close
Closes the dialog.
Delete
Deletes the selected entry from the index. The entry text in the document is not deleted.The following navigation buttons are only available in the Edit Index Entry dialog.
Previous entry (same name)
Jumps to the previous index entry with the same entry and type as the current index entry.