Indexing a membership directory in CS2

Question

I'm building a 256 page membership directory. There are 8 sections and a member may be listed in more than one section. These listings are being imported from 55 different Excel files.
I want to create an index in the back that will list members in alphabetical order and show which pages they can be found.
Example:
Member........................................Page No.
John Doe................................33, 108, 224
Bob Smith..............................................55
Jane Smith.....................................10, 178
Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

I've done this, though I wouldn't call it easy -- because in the text I had "John Doe," but in the index I actually needed "Doe, John" (and I suspect you will too).
I wrote a macro using QuicKeys (these run slower than AppleScripts but have the advantage that they can watch and record keystrokes and therefore require less programming knowledge). I placed the cursor at the beginning of "John Doe," invoked the macro, and it repeated the keystrokes required to select and rearrange the two parts of the name, adding the comma, then creating an index marker, and then changing the name back to its original order in the text. I had a modified macro for names with a middle initial, and names with two parts ("Jane Van Shmoe") I did by hand since there weren't many. Each macro was assigned to an F-key, and I paged through the document paragraph by paragraph hitting appropriate F-keys until I was done.
If anyone knows an easier way, I'd love to hear it :-)
Rodney