And here is a second macro that you can run on a document, and that will look for all such strings and index all of them in the way you describe. # Index All Bible Verses with Book $doc = Document.active $refs = $doc.text.find @String|\<\d?[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]{1,4}\> (?:\d+\.\d+, )*(?:\d+\.\d+)|, 'Ea-i' foreach $ref in $refs $refString = $ref.substring $refString.find @String|\<(?<book>\d?[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]{1,4}\>) (?<verseList>(?:\d+\.\d+, )*(?:\d+\.\d+))|, '¢E-i' $verses = $verseList.split(', ') $refLoc = $ref.location + $book.length + 1 foreach $verse in $verses $sel = TextSelection.new $ref.text, Range.new($refLoc, $verse.length) $doc.setSelection $sel Add to Text Index As "$book $verse" $refLoc = $sel.bound + 2 end end > On Jan 23, 2019, at 19:23 , takamitsu Muraoka <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I wonder if someone could help. > When you have a series of references to a biblical book, for instance, with the name of the book first, then a series of references, I would like to use "Index as". E.g. 1Sam 3.4, 5.6, 7.8, 12.10. At the moment for the the last three references, I first select "1Sam", copy it, then apply "Index a" to the last three references, by manually copying "1Sam" in front of the numbers. Sometimes, however, without me doing anything, when I press "Index as", "1Sam 5.6" appears in the window, and then I just press "Mark." Is there something I can do in order to spare myself this nuisance? > > Best wishes, > Takamitsu MURAOKA > 村岡崇光 Philip Spaelti [log in to unmask]