marking index entries to include "n" for footnotes

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I am indexing a large document (400+ pages), and many of the index entries are in the footnotes. The author wants the index to refer to the footnotes by putting "n" after the page number, as:

Bohemia, 27, 285, 314n, 415

How can I do this? I'm using Word 2000.
 
Hi K:

You could use the "bold page number" option as a coded way
of getting there. While marking the term that happens to
be in a footnote, choose for it to get a bold page number
(while the bulk of your index entries don't). The bold
index code will have a \b switch in it.

Your resulting index will have bold page numbers for the
items from footnotes.

Then, from my experiment it seems you can do a Wildcard
global replace on the index (Select the index first, to
limit the change to that part of the document).

The replace is
([0-9]{1,3})
font: bold

becomes

\1n
font: not bold

Check the box for "Use Wildcards"
Replace All

To explain the Wildcard search string:
it's looking for numbers, one to three digits.
The replacement "\1" means the first parenthetical from
the Find. Thus you get back your number; then an n
follows.
-----Original Message-----
I am indexing a large document (400+ pages), and many of
the index entries are in the footnotes. The author wants
the index to refer to the footnotes by putting "n" after
the page number, as:
 
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