Product Comparison for Automatic Indexing Software for Macintosh and Windows

Product Features	Sonar Bookends Professional	Sonar Bookends InDex Pro	Sonar Bookends	Sonar Bookends InDex
For QuarkXPress, PageMaker, FrameMaker, PDF	*		*
For InDesign		*		*
Mac version is OS X Compatible	*	*	*	*
Proper noun index	*	*	*	*
Word frequency index	*	*	*	*
User-supplied list index	*	*	*	*
Multiple-level index	*	*	*	*
Sort single/multiple level lists	*	*	*	*
Convert single-level list to multiple-level list	*	*	*	*
Reverse first and last names	*	*	*	*
Index reversed names	*	*	*	*
Allow definition of alphabetic characters	*	*	*	*
Index single file or multiple files	*	*	*	*
Prefix page numbers with chapter names option	*	*	*	*
Remove entries that are not found option	*	*	*	*
Word frequency instead of page numbers option (for linguistic studies)	*	*	*	*
Database format option for importing index into a database	*	*	*	*
Subject index	*	*
Preview/edit occurrences in context	*	*
Exit preview and continue later where you left off	*	*
Reapply previous preview selections to a new index	*	*
Optimize list for plurals	*	*
Optimize list for overlapping terms	*	*
Reverse names with titles (John Smith, Jr.)	*	*
Reverse two-word last names (John Van Zandt)	*	*
Articles ignored during sorting	*	*
Sorting sequence is user-definable	*	*
Each level of multi-level list effects indexing option	*	*
Smart hyphen treatment option	*	*
Index items in InDesign tables (InDesign version only)		*
Index items in InDesign footnotes (InDesign version only)		*
Web-site indexing (extra cost option)	*
Future enhancements to functionality	*	*

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