Hi there,

I am currently using OpenOffice 2.2 on a PC with Linux/Ubuntu and
discovered the following problem with an alphabetical index:

After creating an alphabetical index for a (odt- or odm-)document and
inserting index entries into the doc the index does not appear in
alphabetical order. Also the identical alphabetical delimiters appear
several times in different places (still in front of the corresponding
entries) across the index.

I was not able to solve this problem, but found a way to work around it:
I discovered, that in the menu “Insert Index/Table / Options†I had not
ticked the box "combine identical entries". This must have caused the
entries to get messed up, since the entries affected were words I had
marked as both 1st keys and simple entries (of other 1st keys). With the
box ticked the index looks intact.
Thus, by right-clicking on the index and going to "EDIT INDEX", then unticking
or ticking the BOX “COMBINE IDENTICAL ENTRIES" you can literally switch the
problem on and off.

I first encountered this problem when working with a master document
covering a large number of subdocuments, but found it can be reproduced
with only one file, which I will attach to this e-mail.

Thanks for reading this and taking care of it.
Best,
Cornelia