How do I create a glossary in MS Word 2007?

[josiejeannie]

I am writing a rather long report with many abbreviations in it. I want to
list those abbreviations, with their descriptions, in a glossary near the
front of the report. Is there an easy way to do this?

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Jeannie

I am writing a rather long report with many abbreviations in it. I want to
list those abbreviations, with their descriptions, in a glossary near the
front of the report. Is there an easy way to do this?

I suspect MSFT hasn't felt enough demand for this feature so far -- I
don't think there's a feature that's meant to be used for this.

You could, in theory, (mis-)use the INDEX feature for it, though: insert
index entries and choose the cross reference option for the descriptive
text. Based on the resulting XE fields, you can create an index.

But, in effect, instead of "tagging" the abbreviations in your text with
XE fields, you might as well simply put them into a 2xn table and type
the abbreviations into the second column ...

HTH
Robert