You can manually enter keywords directly into the Index Designer. Using this method, you follow up by linking topics to the keywords. You can drag and drop to link local topics, bookmarks, and existing URLs. Or you can use a dialog to link remote topics, new URLs, email addresses, FTP sites, newsgroups, and multimedia files.
Click the Index tab.
From the drop-down in the upper-left corner, select Index.
In the Keyword text box, enter the keyword or phrase, and then click Add.
The keyword is added to the Keyword pane in the upper-part of Index Designer. It appears in bold to indicate that it is not yet linked to any topics.
To drag and drop topic links:
Click the Topics tab.
Select the topic(s) to link to the keyword. To select multiple topics, press and hold CTRL as you click each one.
Drag and drop the topics into the lower pane of the Index Designer.
To link alternate destinations to the keyword:
Right-click inside the lower pane of the Index Designer and select New Keyword Topic.
In Destination, select the type of destination to link to the keyword.
If you are linking a topic or Web address already used in your project, select File or URL and then select the topic or Web address from the Topic list.
If you are linking a topic to an email address, FTP site, or newsgroup, select the appropriate destination and then enter the syntax after the default text that is displayed in the Destination text box. For example, select E-mail, and immediately following the default syntax "mailto:" enter the email address.
If you are linking a topic to a sound or video file, select Multimedia, click Select, and then choose the multimedia file you want to use as the destination.
If you are linking a remote topic from another Microsoft HTML Help project, select Remote Topic, click Select, and choose the .CHM file name and topic.