[X4U] Book Indexing Software?

[Zane H. Healy]

I was asked the following question the other day and I haven't a 
clue.  Of course the software the person is talking about ran on DOS. 
Any ideas?

Zane

>There used to be a program that was great for creating an index of a 
>book or periodical from back in 1991. Do you know of a program that 
>will run on todays computers that is easy and will do such a thing?
>
>I was thinking of using excel but  thought that there might be 
>something just for this project rather than a make shift thing. I do 
>know that with excel one can save to word and then play with that or 
>just tell it to print out with out lines etc. When done I would like 
>to produce a two columned list.
>
>What I would like to do is a sort on (1)surnames, (2)first names and 
>(3)page numbers, kick out all the duplicate verbiage when done and 
>have a nice tidy index of surnames, first names and all the pages 
>that they are listed on.
>
>Any suggestions?


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