ReFolio—the best way to check and adjust a book index
lazyslug's ReFolio is a Microsoft Word
productivity tool designed to assist with checking and
adjusting book indexes.
Adjusting book indexes can be a repetetive and error-prone task. ReFolio maximises the time saved on checking and adjusting book indexes.
Benefits of ReFolio
ReFolio was designed to be a really simple tool to use and to provide the following benefits:
- Saves hours of work proof-reading and adjusting book indexes
- Improves the quality of published book indexes
- Minimises the chances and cost of having to re-print or re-issue a book index due to errors
- Helps indexers hit tight publishing deadlines
- Converts the index into the house style
What does ReFolio do?
Checks and corrects an index
- Finds bad references in an index including: pages out of order, bad page ranges, duplicated page references and unbalanced brackets
- Converts any hyphen to your preferred hyphen in page ranges
- Automatically abbreviates page ranges to your preferred format
- Automatically converts footnotes and endnotes to your preferred format
- Option to create page ranges out of sequential page references
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Highlights any errors found with informative descriptions to assist rapid correction
- Supports several different formats of index including indented, run-in and TOC style
Adjusts the page references in an index
One of the most time consuming tasks is adjusting the page references in a book index. This can happen if a new revision of a book has new pages added or removed, or paragraphs moved from one page to another.
ReFolio assists in updating the book index to reflect the changes in the new revision with the following features:
- Adjusts all page references in an index by any number of pages
- Adjusts all page references that fall within a certain page range in an index by any number of pages
- Assists manual adjustment of page references one by one
- Allows last change to be found so work on an index can continue from where it was left off
- Rapidly finds a specified page reference or the highest or lowest page reference in the index
- Highlights changes made for audit purposes
- Supports indexes that reference multiple volumes
- Supports several page reference types including Roman numerals, footnotes, endnotes, relative placement and brackets
ReFolio is highly configurable and supports many different formats of book index.
ReFolio is a Microsoft Word add-in and provides the tools you need to check and adjust an index at your fingertips. It is supplied with a detailed User Guide, an Installation Guide and many tutorials.