First I want to thank Peter Grange for taking the time to
assist. Even on the weekend! Thanks again Peter!
Problem solved - yes Harvey, I even took my level 4 headings
to level 2. This helped, but not completely; that's not the
solution. Here's what I did.
I bailed out of RoboHelp. (!)
I just could not make it make sense and then started studying
more on Word's index, and the information available online.
For example, Towson University has a great PDF on Concordance
Files in Word.
Procedure to get a workable index in Word:
1. Use RH to generate an index. Edit and manipulate as needed
2. Output entire job in to Word.
3. Review and confirm Word document.
4. Took the Word index, copied to new file, stripped out the
page numbers and made a 2 column table of it.
5. Copied column 1 to column 2 (second colum can be used to
change actual index text display).
6. Created a concordance with that data, that will later be
entered into Word's "Index, AutoMark" as a file.
7. Closed Word - no need to save document.
8. Went back to RH and reloaded the Job.
9. Completely delete all index entries and save this way (no
index).
10. Again output this job to Word.
11. Open document in Word.
12. Now do my usual RH induced need-to-repaginate (because of
image bug) and add necessary page breaks.
13. Go to Word's Index feature and enter concordance file,
and place index where desired.
14. Add header that says "Index:" ( or whatever you want to
heading the Index with.)
15. Repaginate TOC and Index and "Whallah"! All page numbers
now match the TOC and Index.
Plus now the index is keyed to the PAGE not the TOPIC!
MRK