How To Create Automatic Index in Word 2007 Using Concordance Index

An INDEX is an alphabetical list that is printed in the back of book and tells you on which pages important topics are referred to.

Hello! Here I am again to share to you how to create automatic index in Word 2007 using Concordance Index.

To make a concordance index you need to create two column table in a new document. The first column is for all the terms you want the word to find, and the second column is for the index entry you want to see for each term. You don’t need to alphabetically arrange the word.

For example: 

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If you want the index to have its sub entry, all you need to do is place a colon (:) without space after the main entry. See figure below:

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Just adding colon after the main entry you can make sub entry of more than one. Save it as concordance.doc.

After making the concordance go to your document page where you want the index to appear. Most indexes are found at the end of the book.

Click References, Insert Index, the figure below will appear.

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Click AutoMark and you need to open Index AutoMark file, this is the concordance we made earlier. Open the file. This will automatically mark all the words you provided. You can reveal and unrevealed codes or tags, e.g. { XE “GMS” } by hitting Ctrl + Shift + 8. Make sure that the paragraphs marks ¶, codes/tags are hidden during importing of the concordance. 

Then, you now have your index. See diagram below.

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As you can see it was alphabetically arranged. Host computer automatically indented as sub entry.

I hope you learned simple way to create automatic index using concordance.

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