Need Help Author Index Creation from Paragraphs – Urgent (36 Hours Left!)

[Milqn Vuk]

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!

[Guessed]

I would start by applying a style to all those authors names. You can then use that either as the trigger to either gather all names into a TOC or to run a macro that applies index fields to all the entries.

A macro can do all the work very quickly but we would want to see a representative chunk of document so that the code would be structured correctly. If you post a small sample in a word document someone here could write the code you need.

[Milqn Vuk]

Yes, I was thinking something exactly like that, I would apply a style to all author names and then convert them into an index. I’m very new to macros, though, so I’d really appreciate it if someone could help provide the code. I’d be immensely grateful!

Attached is the exact document I’m working with (headers/footers removed). I would say that the first page is a similar case and the second is a complicated case but in both cases, I would always say that the first name is the first word, and if there is a construction like Word-Word that is surname.
Let me know if you need additional details.

[macropod]

You can use a concordance file for this. See:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/131815-post2.html
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...dex-query.html