[Solved] Remove bogus index entries

[jejaffe]

Been using OpenOffice since v3 or so. 4.17 has been operating without error for a long time. I've got a 300+ page document and created an alphabetical index. For several weeks it took a few seconds to update. Now it takes minutes and a coin toss if it crashes.

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I renamed the document from .ODT to .ZIP, extracted content.xml and renamed to content.html and loaded to OO. Did a search and replace to improve readability and captured a part of the screen. The "E." shown is my middle initial. All the other alphabetical-index-marks appear to be

<null>

I didn't mark the "E." either.

All pages are full of entries I did not mark including every [space]. I deleted the index but the marks remain. I can manually delete the index fields but at hundreds of pages and every space an index mark I'll probably be dead before I finish.

Deleting EVERY index field is fine, but editing the content.html file is painfully slow.

I have read that a corrupt indexing can cause this. After four days of part time error I have finally identified the problem but have no idea what do to.

tia

Jonathan

[FJCC]

You could do a regular expression search for

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<text:alphabetical-index-mark[^>]+>

and delete everything that is found. Use Find & Replace, search for the string above and, under More Options, select Regular Expressions. Make a back up copy of the file before you try this! It might take a while for the search to work because it will find so many matches

[Zizi64]

Been using OpenOffice since v3 or so. 4.17 has been operating without error for a long time.

There is not AOO4.17 today, nor 4.1.17. Do you mean 4.1.7 version?
https://www.openoffice.org/download/