RE: Why I need an Index

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

Are all of your sections or chapters in one file?  An index can cover
several sections or files that that produce one book.  You might want to
point out that searching for a term does not mean that you will find the
term within the correct context as you do in an index.  For example, the
term "print" may appear several places in a document and "report" may appear
in a section for generating a report and a section for printing a report.
How will a reader find the "report" sub-section "print" without and index?
How will a reader find a particular page for any term in a printed document
when document search is not possible?  Are readers expected to always use a
live copy of the document?  Any evidence of printed documents will expose a
fundamental flaw in "Ctrl-F."

Lauren
 

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> Behalf Of Kevin McGowan
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:04 AM
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> Subject: Why I need an Index
> 
> 
> Just thought I'd share this one with the group.
> 
> On Friday, I was meeting with my bosses and we were 
> discussing the doc 
> projects and how I'm progressing. I pointed out that one 
> extra project I 
> wanted to do was to add Indexes to the current documentation. 
> We have word 
> files...and none of them have ever been Indexed. i've only 
> been at this job 
> a month, but I figured this would be well worth the time investment.
> 
> The question asked of me was: "Well, what's the point of an 
> Index anyway? 
> Can't the reader just use Ctrl-F?"
> 
> I'm not sure what anyone else would have said...but I just 
> came back with 
> "I'm going to make some indexes."
> 
> Kevin
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