If you have made a massive balls-up as I did, then this is also the way to go because you can cut and paste your erroneous index and fix that up, in this way you can plan it a bit. There really is no getting around this long boring bit any way that you approach it, but if you get those words saved into a seperate document, I used notepad, then the next stage is pretty straightforward for building the index. Go through your book and make a note of all the words you want in the index. So… how to make an Alphabetical Index for YOUR book…lets get started 1. If after reading this article you still need more info, then check Chapter 12 Tables of Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies of the manual which can be found here - or more precisely, though this link may change in time, here - Īnd this is the eBook I am currently indexing ready for paperback publication… This way you have the best chance of not having errors and you can export it out as anything you like when you are done. The first thing you need to do is work in it’s native format using *.odt files and not be tempted to save it as *.doc out of familiarity.
It’s pretty good and works much the same way as MS Office, and best of all it’s free ! Link here OOo as we used to call it, though now apparently called AOO, is a free software similar to MS Office. Publish A Book: How to Create an Alphabetical Index in OpenOffice Apache OpenOffice ‘How To’: Create an Alphabetical Index For Your Book.Īfter wasting a day and having to delete the entire index from my soon to be published paperback, I figured I would put this instruction post together so I could follow it next time and maybe help a brother, or sister, out.
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