How to remove ALL index marks embeded in text of document?

[Bradley]

Old index marks in text are not being removed when rebuilding index table thus create a new mark every time the index is updated.

This bug of not clearing the index marks in the text from the previous selection of ‘update index’ before adding additional index marks when selecting ‘update index’.

It would be very helpful to be able to delete ALL occurrences of a single word index mark instead of selecting delete for every occurrence and repeating that step thousands of times. Bugzilla – Bug 103630

[anon87010807]

Right now the best thing to do with indexes (from concordance files) is to work with a copy of your document, so if you don’t like the result, you can discard the copy and start with a new one. I’m not sure if this was/is handled better by MS Word or WordPerfect, by the way.

[Bradley]

Interesting idea. My book is over 500 pages including 13 pages for the index with thousands of old index marks throughout the text. I need a way to automate the removal of all index marks from the text. Manually it will take three days.
This incident is like if you were to clicking update index on your TOC and your TOC included all the old pages and chapter titles and all the new pages and titles. And after you delete your TOC and create a new TOC all the old pages & chapter titles are back

[anon87010807]

The only way that I can think of now is to edit the content.xml file and delete the index items there. You can also ask for help at the openoffice community forum - responses will come a lot quicker than here.

[PYS]

Hi

Did you try to Copy all the text then Paste Special▸Formatted text [RTF]?

Regards

[Bradley]

That may work for one paragraph if you want to loose all text paragraph styles and formatting. It will not work for 500 pages of text, but thank you for answering.

[PYS]

@Bradley

So the answer to my question is: you did not try

Regards