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    <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">User-Defined Indexes</title>
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  <bookmark_value>indexes; creating user-defined indexes</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph id="par_id3155184" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">You can create as many user-defined indexes as you want.</paragraph>

<h2 id="hd_id3155915" xml-lang="en-US">To Create a User-Defined Index</h2>

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    <paragraph id="par_id3155867" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Select a word or words that you want to add to a user-defined index.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3153410" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Choose <emph>Insert - Table of Contents and Index - Index Entry</emph>.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3154248" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Click the <item type="menuitem">New User-defined Index</item> button next to the <item type="menuitem">Index</item> box.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3155886" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Type a name for the index in the <item type="menuitem">Name</item> box and click <item type="menuitem">OK</item>.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3147114" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Click <item type="menuitem">Insert</item> to add the selected word(s) to the new index.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3147139" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Click <item type="menuitem">Close</item>.</paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id3150231" xml-lang="en-US">To Insert a User-Defined Index</h2>

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    <paragraph id="par_id3150933" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Click in the document where you want to insert the index.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3150952" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Choose <emph>Insert - Table of Contents and Index - Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography</emph>.</paragraph>
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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id3150509" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">On the <item type="menuitem">Type</item> tab, select the name of the user-defined index that you created in the <item type="menuitem">Type</item> box.</paragraph>
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    <paragraph id="par_id3146881" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Select any options that you want.</paragraph>
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    <paragraph id="par_id3146897" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
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