[Candace9685]

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?

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

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
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