IndexAssistant is a very inexpensive piece of shareware for helping index books. It runs inside and works on top of Microsoft Word. Basically, it's a very powerful interface that helps streamline and organize the process of using Word's nativefunctions to index a document. It's especially helpful in: letting you see what your index looks like overall, through displaying an alphabetized list, so you can quickly mark text with an existing index entry; setting up subentries in your index (e.g., perception:visual); and quickly marking ranges of text for inclusion in your index.
Full disclosure: I wrote this software, because I couldn't afford expensive professional indexing software, and thought that the professional software was overkill with too steep a learning curve for the author indexing her own book. After that I thought it would something of a service to the community to release it cheap. Purchasing it will help me cover website costs.
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