From the course: Cert Prep: Word 2016 Microsoft Office Expert (77-726)

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Mark, create, and update index entries

Mark, create, and update index entries

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Mark, create, and update index entries

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about how to mark, create, and update index entries. Creating an index in Word 2016 is a great way to build a reference list for your document, and it's very similar to a table of contents. Our first step would be to select and then mark our entries. Now your selection can be a word, or it can be an entire phrase. After we have marked all of our entries, we'll create an index. We'll then go back and mark a few more entries and update that index. Let's go ahead and go into our document, 04_01 Index_Entries, and let's go ahead and mark some entries. On the References tab, we have an entire Index group that we're going to work within. The first thing that we'll do is select some text. I would like to have Willow Farm as one of the entries in my index. I'm going to go ahead and select the text and then go to Mark Entry. It's showing me the text that I selected, the main entry. I can set it as a cross-reference, so if someone clicks on this reference in my index…

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