In order to create a Table of Authorities, you must mark your citations. To do so, follow the instructions below.

1. Open your document.
2. Display the non-printing characters in your document by clicking once on the Show/Hide icon, located in the Standard toolbar.

   

3. Select your first citation.
4. Click on the word Insert in the menu bar.
5. Hold your cursor over the option Reference.
6. Select Index and Tables from the submenu that appears.
7. The Index and Tables dialog will appear.

   

8. Go to the Table of Authorities tab.
9. Click on the Mark Citation button.
10. The Mark Citation dialog will appear.

    

11. Click on the downward pointing arrow to the right of the Category field to choose the category that applies to the citation.
12. Edit the text in the Short Citation field so that it matches the short citation that you want Microsoft Word to search for in the document.
13. Edit the text in the Selected Text field to create a long citation.
14. To mark a single citation, click on the Mark button.
15. To mark all long and short citations that match those displayed in the Mark Citation dialog, click on the Mark All button.
16. Microsoft Word will add a ‘TA’ to the beginning of each marked citation.
17. To find the next citation in the document, click on the Next Citation button. (Microsoft Word looks for words or abbreviations commonly found in citations, such as in re, v., Ibid, or Sess.)
18. When you have finished marking all of your citations, click on the Close button in the Mark Citation dialog.

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