How to Create a Back of Book Index

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Review your book

   You can use Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign, but locating your index terms will take a long time.
   
   There is a tool called PDF Index Generator that will locate your words faster and write the final index to your PDF book. ,,, It will show each term, and the pages it exists in. ,,, You can write it in a new PDF to see how it will look like, or to a text file, or you can directly append it to your already finished book ...
   
   To be ready to be published.
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   Step 2: copy all terms and phrases you want to see in the book Index

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   Step 3: and save them in a text file.

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   Step 4: Choose a program to write and design your book index.

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   Step 5: Open PDF Index Generator and define your list of terms that you have collected from your book.

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   Step 6: Command the program to generate the book index using this list of terms only.

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   Step 7: After the generation is done you will see a table of results.

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   Step 8: You can then edit those results

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   Step 9: define header and sub-header terms.

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    Step 10: Choose a design template for your final index that suits your book.

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    Step 11: Finally

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    Step 12: specify where to write the final index.

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