[Solved] Hierarchical index for categories

[Pauhana]

Hey OpenOffice community.

I have a document manual with pages that have a fixed structure (which is to say, they follow a template). I am looking for a way to create an index hierarchy that references information within those pages. For instance, I'd like within the index instead of having things grouped under the first letter of a topic, I'd like a category like "Tool", then under Tool "Hammer" with specific page numbers containing hammer, "Plier" with specific page numbers containing plier, etc.Is there a way of accomplishing this?

Thanks very much for any help!

[floris v]

Yes, that is possible. If you enter index items with the Insert - Table of Contents and index dialog box, enter Hammer in the Entry box and Tool in the First key box. If you want deeper nesting, you can enter a second key. It seems that those second keys will be sorted with the items with only one key, so you can get

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Alphabetical Index
grammar	
	pronouns	
		this		2
	rule			1
	verb	
		have	1
tool	
	hammer		1

which is a bit sad, of course.

[Pauhana]

The 1st and 2nd key boxes are not active (greyed out). Not sure why. Any thoughts?

[Pauhana]

Oh, I didn't have alphabetical selected. Never mind.

Thanks for the info!