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Creating an Index Entry for a Range of Pages

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 14, 2019)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021

If you have ever created an index before, you know that it is possible for an index reference to refer to a range of pages. Word makes this type of index entry easy through the use of bookmarks. To do this, follow these steps:

Select the text you want to use as the range of pages in the index. This text may span several pages.
Assign a bookmark to this text selection.
Press Alt+Shift+X to display the Mark Index Entry dialog box. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Mark Index Entry dialog box.

In the Main Entry text box, enter the index entry as you want it to appear in the index.
Select the Page Range radio button.
Use the drop-down Bookmark list to select the name of the bookmark you defined in step 2.
Click on Mark.
Repeat steps 4 through 7, as desired.
Click on Close to dismiss the Mark Index Entry dialog box.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (7015) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Creating an Index Entry for a Range of Pages.

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2024-02-02 06:08:21

Cristiane

Thank you very much! I've already visited about ten websites that explain how to create a page range for the Word index and I didn't understand. You were the only one who did it in a simple and detailed way at the same time. In a minute I managed to create one.

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