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Where can I find tips on setting up a concordance file?
I am setting up a concordance file in order to produce indices which I use in
my court reporting business. Is there any place that provides more tips and shortcuts on the topic besides Microsoft Office Word Help? I would like to know how you can set up the file so as not to discertain between "Who" and "who" and words in all caps and derivatives of words, such as if the word "stop" is in your index the words "stops," "stopped," "stopping," and "stopper" would be indexed under the word "stop." Is this even possible? If not, is there a software program in existence which would accomplish my indexing tasks that I need? |
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Where can I find tips on setting up a concordance file?
Hi Candace
Candace9685 wrote: I am setting up a concordance file in order to produce indices which I use in my court reporting business. Is there any place that provides more tips and shortcuts on the topic besides Microsoft Office Word Help? I would like to know how you can set up the file so as not to discertain between "Who" and "who" and words in all caps and derivatives of words, such as if the word "stop" is in your index the words "stops," "stopped," "stopping," and "stopper" would be indexed under the word "stop." Is this even possible? If not, is there a software program in existence which would accomplish my indexing tasks that I need? FWIW, a software that would do that on its own, reliably and flawlessly, would most probably cost _a lot_ more than Office itself. The concordance file saves you the effort of creating all the XE fields on your own. It does not, to my knowledge, spare you the effort of creating all the lines for your self (so that Word knows that "stops" shall be found under "stop", etc.). And it certainly does not spare you the effort of determining whether "stops", in the conjunction used on page 375 of your text, has any sensible meaning to the reader looking through your index. An index listing all possible occurrences of a Word is usually not very meaningful. [That's why the best indexes are probably created pretty manually, with a printout and a highlighter, by a reader who understands both the subject of the text and the index process.] 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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