I have a document with hundreds of pages where authors' names are listed in a specific paragraph after each title. I need to create an index of authors, but manually doing this would take far too long. Is there a way to automate this process, such as by selecting the paragraph containing the authors and marking it for automatic extraction and indexing? For example, if the authors are listed in a paragraph like this:

Example Title
John Doe1, Jane Smith1, and Alice Johnson2

where numbers after surnames are in superscript.

Can a macro be created to tag paragraphs selected by me, extract the authors' names, and compile them into an index?

I’m not sure if this is even possible, but I’m desperate for a solution as I have less than 36 hours to complete this task. Any guidance or tools that could help automate this process would be immensely appreciated!