An index consists of a multilevel list of keywords and keyword phrases. You build a keyword list from the keyword entries that you associate with the topics in your project.
There are several ways to add keywords including:
Enter keywords directly into the Index Designer: You can manually enter keywords directly into the Index Designer and associate topics with them. This is also a quick and handy method for linking remote topics, email addresses, FTP sites, newsgroups, URLs, and multimedia to keywords.
Drag and drop: From the Topic List, you can select the topic you want to associate with the keyword and drag and drop it onto the Index Designer. The keyword name is based on the topic title. You can change it whenever necessary.
Topic Properties: You can add keywords to topics through their properties. For each topic, you can open a dialog that includes an index tab. From this tab, you can add keywords, subkeywords, copy existing keywords from other topics, change and remove keywords.
Topic text: When a topic is open in the WYSIWYG Editor, you can select text and add it to the index as a keyword or keyword phrase.
Auto-generate: The Smart Index Wizard is an automated indexing tool that searches the content of your topics and suggests keywords and keyword phrases. You can use it to quickly create an index from concept to finish and to add suggested keywords to individual topics.