FM save as RTF -- how to keep index markers?

I have to export an FM book with a comprehensive index (from index markers) to word-processor files for the author to update for a new edition. But when I open the RTF in Word, there are no index markers. Curiously, I've done this before, and can't recall having any difficulty. Am I missing something obvious?

What's puzzling me is that I've done this before: I'm looking at Word documents from a book exported from FM with all the index markers present. I did this in February 2008, and can't remember that I'd had any problems doing it, so I assumed that it had been just a simple Save As.
But now it seems I must've done it via some workaround. I agree that mif2go will probably do it, but I'm not keen to buy it for a one-off job: I haven't got mif2go, but I have got Ixgen (http://www.fsatools.com/), and one option that seems likely to work is to use Ixgen to expand index markers to text (with a specific character format); then save as RTF; then, in the word processor, convert that text to index markers.
(It's a bit of a drag, but better than having to redo three indexes — subject, cases, statutes — when the edited docs come back to me.)
Any better ideas?

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