Creating index tags

You can create index tags in AFP files. When a file contains index tags, you can use an AFP viewer to navigate in the file to find specific data viewer to navigate in the file to find specific data. You can also use the index tag values in barcode data.

In this section:

  1. Creating index tags for text blocks
    You can create an index tag for text in an AFP text block. You can edit the text in the block to remove unwanted characters, such as blanks or special characters.
  2. Creating index tags in areas
    You can create index tags for text in an area.
  3. Creating index tags in address areas
    You can create index tags for mailing addresses in an address area.
  4. Creating index tags from NOP records
    You can create index tags from No Operation (NOP) records.
Parent topic: Indexing AFP files