Indexes

Indexes

An Index is a concordance without the contexts: that is, a wordlist where each word is accompanied by some kind of pointer to all its occurrences, but no surrounding illustrative text. It is similar to the index at the back of a book.

To view an index, make a concordance in the usual way and then choose Index from the Context Tabs (down the right-hand edge of the program's window), or choose 'As Index' on the Contexts menu.

If you are viewing an index, you will get an index when you print your concordance, save your concordance as text or as HTML, or make a Web Concordance.

An index can contain line numbers, or references which you have defined using Concordance's reference system, or both.

To make an index which uses the page numbers of an existing document, insert references into your text like this:

<P Page 1> at the top of page 1
<P Page 2> at the top of page 2

and so on. Then tell Concordance to collect reference category P. See the help topic on references.

Page references in a Word document

In Microsoft Word, you can use a macro to insert page references automatically. An example is here.