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Removing single entries from the index in MS Word [Solved]

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If you are a writer like me, you might have made the horrendous mistake of marking a common short word as an "index entry" and struggled for hours deleting them. Common words like YOU or LIFE makes no sense in a fiction work; or SEA/OCEAN in a marine biology science textbook. The only way to delete these entries is to go individual entries and delete them, including the braces, as per MS Office support . Here let me share a work around. Make sure all marks are shown (Ctrl+*) in the word.  Bring "Find & Replace" dialogue (Ctrl+H) in the Find What? box, add the term with ^d XE prefix. For example, the term you want to remove is "sea", find term would be ^d XE "sea".  Leave "Replace with" box as it is. Click "Replace All" radio button, and hurray, you are done!