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Discover the power of CINDEX 4

Friendly, fast, and flexible, CINDEX is the outstanding indexing program favored by professional indexers. It offers unsurpassed performance and features in an exceptionally easy-to-use package. What’s more, it comes with a highly acclaimed printed User’s Guide, and outstanding context-sensitive help. See why so many indexers rely on CINDEX.

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Simple Creation and Editing of Entries

  • See entries in context as you add them
  • Save phrases that you can insert in entries with a single keystroke
  • Instantly recall and duplicate any entry or part of it
  • Record and replay sequences of keystrokes and mouse clicks
  • Flip (exchange) headings at any level
  • Drag and drop text and entries within CINDEX and between CINDEX and other applications

Search and Replace

  • Search for any text
  • Search among particular records (e.g., those made yesterday)
  • Search for entries that refer to specified pages
  • Search among specified headings
  • Boolean searches
  • Search for and replace text that matches a pattern
  • Search for and replace type styles or fonts

Spelling

Locators

  • Seamlessly handle compound locators
  • Automatically conflate page numbers
  • Chicago or Hart’s rules for abbreviating references
  • Automatically adjust page references
  • Apply styles automatically to page references, or parts of them

Document Preparation

  • Directly embed index entries in Microsoft Word documents
  • XML markup; SGML markup
  • Tag indexes for typesetting

Statistics

  • Obtain counts of entries of different kinds
  • Obtain general statistics and page counts

Customizing

  • Set your own preferences for views
  • Set preferences for adding/editing entries
  • Customizable toolbars

Views

  • View a fully formatted index as you work on it
  • Complete control of page and column layout
  • Complete range of index styles
  • Instantly switch among alternative views of your index
  • Automatically set headings in specified fonts or styles
  • Instantly display entries under particular headings

Groups

  • Define convenient groups of entries (e.g., for chapters)
  • Break an index into multiple sub-indexes

Alphabetizing

  • Instant, automatic alphabetizing of entries
  • Full range of alphabetizing options
  • Sort using language-specific conventions
  • Sort by page number

Cross-References

  • Automatic placement of cross-references
  • Automatic punctuation of cross-references; treat See and See also differently
  • Automatic styles (italics, etc.) for cross-references
  • Automatic verification of cross-references
  • Generate automatic cross-references from authority; double-post automatically
  • Automatically convert See references to fully-qualified entries

Printing

  • Complete flexibility of document layout
  • Produces camera-ready copy directly

Import and Export

  • Import index records from Sky Index (versions 6, 7, 8), from Macrex, and from database programs
  • Export indexes as formatted documents (Rich Text Format, Index-Manager, QuarkXPress, InDesign, plain text, tagged text)
  • Define your own document formats
  • Export index entries as XML or as database records
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As of 1-April-2024, CINDEX will no longer be available for purchase from this website. We’ve made the decision to open source the CINDEX product and make it freely available. You can read more about this change here.