In preparation to inserting the index, you have already prepared an Index Concordance by reading your originally brainstormed thoughts and building a list of words and phrases you wish MS Word to search for in the text and place in the Index Table.
Find the Index chapter in your document. There should be nothing else on that page. If there is push it over to the next page. Now to insert the index you should:
1. Select from the main menu in MS Word Inert, Reference, Index and Tables;
2. Click on the Index tab;
3. You then need to select AutoMark –one of the buttons on that window;
4. It will then give you a box to locate the name of the file in which you have your Index Concordance;
5. Select that file from the folder located at “My Brains/BrainNameofYourBook/”
6. Click OK.
All the references will be marked throughout the text when this is completed. Now you have one final step to do, that is to insert that actual index table. This is achieve by selecting Insert, Reference, Index and Tables, (make any selection concerning the format of the index table) and then click on OK.
Your table of contents will be then inserted. To update your Index Table to show the correct page numbers if they are modified, you would simply select the table and use the F9 key to update the field.