Create Index with clickable links in Writer?

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#1

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A document I'm working on has an Alphabetical Index at the beginning of it.

I've read you can create an Index that has clickable links in it so you
can quickly go to the Index item in the document.

How in the world do I create such a link? I sure can't figure it out.

#2

In the index properties (when adding it, or after with right click->edit
index) on the second tab are found the format used for each index entries.
If you use the "hyperlink" button when placing your cursor before and then
after the entry title, it will create an hyperlink (button's name might not
exactly be this, my interface is not in english).

So for example if the default is:
_E#_E_T_#_

you click left of E, use the hyperlink button, same on the right, and it
goes:

_E#_DH_E_FH_T_#_

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Chapter 12 of the Writer Guide might be useful too.
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide

Also the dialogue-box itself helps a bit but it takes a bit of experimentation before it really makes sense.  It's a bit weird at first so it helps to see a few different ways of explaining it.  Once you have worked it out it's really neat :slight_smile:

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Thanks for help but it doesn't work.I followed these directions;
Hyperlinking
              an entry

To
            change the defaultStructureline so that the chapter number and the entry text form a
            hyperlink,
            follow these steps:

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
I found i applied it to the wrong "level" or "style".  Try changing the level in the box on the left-hand-side(ish) (ie not the one on far left).  Then set that structure-line there too until you have done a few of them.  It might be wiorth checking which style is set in the style tab. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Tom,

Nuts. It didn't work. Truly, I think the problem is caused by my
misunderstanding of levels. Yes, I understand that there are level
numbers in a column that appear in the "Entry" tab. Levels and styles
are something I've never understood.

Oh well.

Thanks anyway.

#7

Well, somehow I created a TOC with the underlined Entry names.
But....whenever I try to do the "ctrl-click" on the TOC entry nothing
happens. Also, the TOC entry doesn't have the "ctrl-click on the name
of the TOC entry" pop up that occurs with a functional link.

Any ideas?

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
I think we are ready for Cley's answer now! I have only done this for a
Table of Contents and i think the tags are a bit different. Cley says to
change
_E#_E_T_#_
to
_E#_DH_E_FH_T_#_
but in the ToC the tags are LE instead of DH and LS instead of FH, i think.
Also placing the tags only around the "E" makes only the "Entry Text"
clickable. To make the whole line clickable, including; Chapter number,
Entry text, Tab-stop (fills space on the line with dots) and page number try
this in the weird Structure line for the ToC
LS_E#_DH_E_T_#_LE

Note that you can delete and then re-position those buttons such as E#.
When you delete one you see the greyed-out buttons under the Structure line
suddenly become clickable again. Also if you click on the "T" then you can
change the dots to something else or even just make "nothing".
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Cley Faye wrote

#9

Have you studied Chapter 9 of LibreOffice's Writer Guide? You can
get it here:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/.
    If you use Writer often, you might want to download the entire
Writer Guide for future references.

--Dan

#10

A document I'm working on has an Alphabetical Index at the beginning of it.

I've read you can create an Index that has clickable links in it so you
can quickly go to the Index item in the document.

How in the world do I create such a link? I sure can't figure it out.

    Have you studied Chapter 9 of LibreOffice's Writer Guide? You can
get it here:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/.
    If you use Writer often, you might want to download the entire
Writer Guide for future references.

--Dan

Chapter 9 pertains only to Tables.

#11

Sorry, wrong chapter. Chapter 12 is the one you need.

--Dan