[Helpers] Book writing - notes

[Rich]

> Indexes are an INTENSE amount of work. 

If using Word, a format can be applied to text during writing and the
program can automatically create the index with a few simple clicks, based
on all the text in that format and recognising the page number it came from.


The format doesn't necessarily change the font or style of the text unless
set to do this, and it's possible to overlay several formats so font changes
and styles can be separated from what needs to be in the index.

Items can be marked in a similar fashion for the contents and index of
pictures / illustrations etc. 



> In a .DOC? I've done it 3 ways. Very manual, slightly manual, and a
> publishing software that breaks up areas on the page (as if it were a
> publication like a magazine, newspaper, journal, etc.) The slightly
> manual version is to set up a Macro that when used, will convert a
> paragraph of text into a series of table columns and rows, all properly
> spaced. 

I've found Word (depending on the version) has wizards to do a lot of these
things. Can check help on 'convert text to table', 'insert drawing box',
'columns'. 


r