I recently decided to revisit a document I wrote on an ancient version of OpenOffice running on Linpus, so downloaded the latest version of OpenOffice (4.1.2) on my Windows 8.1 laptop and loaded up the document. However, when I rebuilt the Alphabetical Index I noticed it wasn't updating correctly - but when I dug out my old Linpus system and opened it with the software on there it was fine. After trying many different options and settings, I'm thinking that I've hit a bug. I hunted around and found
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59295 which has a good match in terms of title ("chapter info in alphabetical index") but the detail seems to relate to page numbering. By way of example of my problem, I've attached a small document I created which has two chapters (each based on Heading 1 style which is Level 1), where Chapter Two has two lines; the first line has 'Dog' indexed (Alphabetical index) and the second line has 'Bat' indexed (User-defined index). For both indexes I have created a format that references Chapter Info, and I'd expect OpenOffice to cite the Number of the current chapter and it's Title (where the number would be '2' and the title 'Chapter Two') but instead it's quoting the number as '??' and it's quoting the entire line that I indexed rather than the title of the current chapter (though it correctly reports the word I indexed, ie Dog or Bat, and its page number, ie 1). I'd prefer to continue work on my document using the latest OpenOffice on my newer laptop, but if I can't get this working then I'll have to make do with the older version on my tiny Linpus system. My document is a collection of 400 poems, where each poem is numbered and titled, and my Index is an Index of first lines, which i wanted to show (a) the first line, (b) the poem number, (c) the poem title, (d) the page number but as things stand I can only do (a) and (d). Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you.