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Online Learning Courses
Make Your Own Macros—Keyboard Shortcuts to Speed Indexing and Increase Accuracy

Three-Part Course with Elizabeth Bartmess. October 9, 16, and 23, 2024. Macros are like mini-programs that anyone can write. They allow users to perform a longer series of tasks with a quick keyboard shortcut and can speed indexing, increase accuracy, and reduce small annoyances. Macros can invert names, clean text, and do many other useful […]

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See Also—October 2024

This month read about National Indexing Day, plans for December special event, Key Words, register to save time with macros, members talk indexing software on the playground, Chapters and SIGS, PNW Chapter meeting, History/Archaeology SIG to meet, University conference: Ethics in publishing, and Spotlight on Jennifer Allison. More »»»

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Submit your book for ASI Indexing Awards

You could win a $500 award. Enter your index into the awards by October 24, 2024. More »»»

Webinars
ASI Webinar Replay: Biographical Metatopics, or, the Why of the Who

Determining the metatopic of a text is often a complicated, perhaps worrisome task. This is especially the case with biographies. This webinar offers a brief refresher on metatopics and then delves into the minutiae of creating metatopic entries for biographies. In this webinar, you will learn to More »»»

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