EntryExpander™
One user wrote: "I just wanted to let you know how happy I have been with Entry Expander. I just finished up an author index with 4764 names, and I could not have gotten the job finished on time without Entry Expander. It is a wonderful little program which has repaid me many times over the amount I spent for it in this one indexing job."
EntryExpander is a utility for creating multiple entries from a single entry
that is a "list" of authors, keywords, etc.
This utility saves countless hours when creating name indexes. These special indexes, frequently required for textbooks or psychology books, involve the inputting of names from bibliographies.
Each publication's authors can be entered in one index record. They can be placed in separate fields or listed in one field or both. For example,
Smith, A.; Thomson, B.; Walker, C.
2002
156
The year is needed if there are multiple books for Smith & Thompson. If multiple books for the same authors exist for the same year, you can use 2002a, etc.
This input scheme allows you to track the bibliography entries during index creation and editing as a single unit. To this record, you add page references for where the book is cited:
Smith, A.; Thomson, B.; Walker, C.
2002
17, 68, 101,
156
Once all the page references from the book have been added to these records, you may want to check that all bibliography entries have had page numbers added to them. Following any checking, the Expander utility separates each name into its own record with its associated page numbers. Without this utility, you would need manually to do this separation of the names into individual records. A user of the program reports on one project saving as much as 10 hours of labor! So in the end, you have these records:
Smith, A.
17, 68, 101,
156
Thomson, B.
17, 68, 101,
15
Walker, C.
17, 68, 101,
156
Note that any year heading is removed, since it is not required in the final name index.
Additionally, EntryExpander can perform validations on the format of the author names.
EntryExpander will accept as input: CINDEX .cdx, .dat, and .arc files, Macrex .mbk files. SkyIndex users can export & import CINDEX .dat files to utilize EntryExpander.
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