Thanks, Charlene. You make a good point about the Find function. Since the index seems to have scanned well otherwise, I think I'll leave it as is. Paula ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlene" <caota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 12:21 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about decolumnizing. > Paula, when I've had this problem with indexes I've briefly wondered the > same thing. Guess after some thought, the hassle of trying to separate > everything was just such a time-consuming thing for an index. I've > separated columns in the body of a book before, but I figure most likely > if someone is looking for something in the index they're probably using > a find function of some sort so decided not to worry about it. But, I > don't know what your situation is, they type of book and such, it might > be worthwhile but it is really time-consuming to separate several pages > of columns. > > Charlene > > > >