
Turn off the hidden items and update the Table of Contents to insure that the page numbers are all correct.ĩ. That will let you create a Table of Contents for the document.Ĩ. Click custom table of contents, and in that area, click Options.ħ. Click the down arrow by Table of Contents.Ħ. With the cursor below the section break, go to the Reference Tab. That will allow you to make the index double-columned later.ĥ. Go to the end of your document and create a section break from the Layout tab. Now you have to create a way to see all those marked items in the Table of Contents. Mark a bogus entry at the top of the document, before your real entries.Ĥ. Use search and replace to replace all the “XE“ entries with “TC“ and the index items will become table of contents items.ģ. Also you could mark items for an index, and then open the hidden items with the Show/Hide button to see all the markings.Ī. That will let you mark any item for a table of contents.Ģ. The command to have an in-line text notated as a Table of Contents item is Alt-Shift-O. Word was not designed to enable you to create a hyperlinked index for a document, but you can create a custom Table of Contents that is in alphabetical order.ġ. Thomas Redd's method works! It has a couple of typos and needs a bit of clarification.

You'll definitely need to fiddle around with the TOC settings to get just the look (and usability) you want. Remember that this is only a workaround, however. This approach works because Word allows you to include multiple TOCs in a document and provides great flexibility in how the TOCs are generated. Once created, generate a TOC that is based on the styles you created.

(These should not be the built-in index styles that Word provides). Start by creating a series of paragraph styles that define how you want your index entries to look. If you prefer to not use an add-on (or IndexLinker won't work for your purposes), then you might try a workaround. In talking with Jack Lyon (the publisher of IndexLinker), he indicates that he knows of no reason why it shouldn't work with Word 2016, but wanted to hold off saying it definitely would until he did some further testing. As of this writing, the IndexLinker page indicates it works with versions of Word up through Word 2013.

Also, it will only work with the Windows versions of Word. IndexLinker is a great add-on, but it isn't free. You can, however, add the capability by using a third-party add-on like IndexLinker: You cannot find such references because (unfortunately) there is no native capability to do this in Word. She knows how to do this for a table of contents, but cannot find any references on how to create a hyperlinked index. Maria wonders if there is a way to generate an index with hyperlinks.
