How to delete the index entries from OpenOffice?

[Gowravaram]

can you tell me how can i remove all the entries from the alphabetical index? Right now I am having document of 80 pages around of 1000 entries. As I am looking to delete all the entries and hence I have to create new alphabetical index. I tried to delete the index manually but it does not working for me at all. if you are having any idea then feel free to post over here.

[JyotiT]

I got a particular solution and posting the same below. So try the same and let me know whether it is working or not.
You have to rename the odt file to .zip and extract the same.
Now launch the content.xml into the text editor. You have to use search and replace in order to replace the result of the following regex with nothing.

<text:alphabetical-index-mark text:string-value="[^"]*"/>

[-Deven-]

If you have installed OOO 3.0 or higher version then it seems that internal Index-Entries syntax is supposed to extended little bit. It seems that all of the Regex Strings is supposed to be deleted.

</text:span><text:alphabetical-index-mark-start text:id="[^"]*"/><text:span text:style="[^"]*"/> 
</text:span><text:alphabetical-index-mark-end text:id="[^"]*"/><text:span text:style="[^"]*"/> 
<text:alphabetical-index-mark-start text:id="[^"]*"/> 
<text:alphabetical-index-mark-end text:id="[^"]*"/> 
<text:alphabetical-index-mark text:string-value="[^"]*"/>

All the expressions are looking similar and single RegEx should be composed in order to handle them. you should carefully replace the matched with EMPTY string there should not be one or more blanks.

[JustineBB]

There is another option which you can use to delete all the entries.

• You have to go for Edit and go for Index Entry.
• Now press and hold the Alt and D buttons till you finish with the process.
• The entire thing is depended how much entries do you having on the each page.

[BillieJ]

Well you will need to right click on every single comma and click on edit the index entry. after that click on delete button. I don’t find any other solution to fix the issue. you can also copy the index list and main content to separate document. Remove all the comma entry and after that create the new index by making use of list as the index keywords. It will lose all the formatting which you have done and the objects which you have inserted.