Getting Started: Basic Marking

If you simply want to mark a single word for indexing, you can do so by having your cursor in the word and pressing Alt+F8. That word will be then be marked for inclusion in the index. While this is the most straightforward way of marking your text, it has some limitations:

•	The term you want to mark must be a single word -- not a phrase.

•	The term must appear in the document exactly as you wish it to appear in the index.

•	The index entry will only be a single level deep -- there will be no subheadings.

•	If you have several indexes or categories of indexes, the item marked must be of the same category or index as the last item marked.

Despite these limitations, there are situations in which this kind of marking can be useful. This kind of marking is useful in the following situations:

•	You are marking for a general index in which all items are marked as category "General" (which basically means, "doesn't matter").

•	You are marking for a specialized index, and all the items being marked for the moment are from the same category.

To mark a word for inclusion in the index as it will appear in the index:

1	Place the cursor in the word you want to add.

2	Press Alt+F8

The word will be now be marked. In Show Codes view, you can see the IM (Index Marker) command that has been inserted.