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    <title id="tit">Defining Index or Table of Contents Entries</title>
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<h2 id="hd_id3155862">To Define Index Entries</h2>

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    <paragraph id="par_id3156380" role="listitem">Click in a word, or select the words in your document that you want to use as an index entry.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3147409" role="listitem">Choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Table of Contents and Index - Index Entry</item>, and do one of the following:</paragraph>
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    <paragraph id="par_id3153417" role="listitem">To change the text that appears in the index, type the text that you want in the <emph>Entry</emph> box. The text that you type here does not replace the selected text in the document.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3154258" role="listitem">To add index entries for all other occurrences of the selected entry text in your document, select <menuitem>Apply to all other occurrences</menuitem>.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3155889" role="listitem">To add the entries to a custom index, click the <emph>New User-defined Index</emph> icon, enter the name of the index, and then click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id3147119">To Define Table of Contents Entries</h2>
<paragraph id="par_id3147132" role="paragraph">The best way to generate a table of contents is to apply the predefined “Heading N” paragraph styles, such as “Heading 1”, to the paragraphs that you want to include in your table of contents.</paragraph>

<h3 id="hd_id3150230">To Use a Custom Paragraph Style as a Table of Contents Entry</h3>

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    <paragraph id="par_id3150933" role="listitem">Choose <menuitem>Tools - Heading Numbering</menuitem> and click the <emph>Numbering</emph> tab.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3150964" role="listitem">Select the paragraph style that you want to include in your table of contents in the <emph>Paragraph Style</emph> box.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3150523" role="listitem">In the <emph>Level</emph> list, click the level for the paragraph style.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3153730" role="listitem">Click <emph>OK</emph>. You can now apply the style to headings in your document and include them in your table of contents. </paragraph>
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