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Making A SANS Index

This document provides instructions for creating an index of all key terms and concepts across multiple security training course books in a spreadsheet. The process involves: 1. Creating a spreadsheet tab for each book and labeling columns for page number, keyword 1, keyword 2, and keyword 3. 2. Going through each book page by page and entering 1-3 keywords that summarize the page content. 3. Combining all keywords from each book into a single "Everything" sheet, sorted alphabetically.

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Making A SANS Index

This document provides instructions for creating an index of all key terms and concepts across multiple security training course books in a spreadsheet. The process involves: 1. Creating a spreadsheet tab for each book and labeling columns for page number, keyword 1, keyword 2, and keyword 3. 2. Going through each book page by page and entering 1-3 keywords that summarize the page content. 3. Combining all keywords from each book into a single "Everything" sheet, sorted alphabetically.

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Kevins way of making an index of the SANS courseware.

1. Create a spreadsheet with one tab for each book you are going to index. (I name my tabs
504.1, 504.2, 504.3, etc.).
2. Label the first four columns on the spreadsheet Page Keyword 1 Keyword 2, and
Keyword 3

3. Go through each course book page by page. Boil the content on each page down to one to
three keyphrases, and type them into the keyword columns next to each page. Skip pages
that dont have something worthwhile or unique enough to index. If you need more than
three keyphrases make another row for that same page.

4. Do this process for every page in all your books.


5. Now we want to flip this so its one printable list with all keywords/phrases alphabetically
followed by their book and page. Heres how (Save an extra copy of all your hard work now
before continuing):
6. Into the first sheet, add a column before column A, label it Book, and fill all the cells
with the book number.
7. Now add two columns before Keyword 2 and another two before Keyword 3, and copy
the contents of columns A (Book) and B (Page) into those new columns.

8. Now select the Book, Page, and Keyword 3 block, cut them, and paste them below
the same column headings in columns A, B, and C. Youll have to select from the top corner
to the bottom corner to select the block, you cant just select the column for this copy-paste.
Do the same for the Book, Page, and Keyword 2 block.

9. Do the same process on all the other spreadsheets in your workbook


10. Now create a new spreadsheet in your workbook named Everything
11. Copy-Paste all the data from columns A, B, and C of all your other worksheets into columns
A, B, and C of this worksheet, each one below the last.
12. On the Everything sheet, move column C Keyword.. before column A Book
13. Sort this worksheet by Column A. Youll end up with an index of the entire course sorted
alphabetically by keyword. Happy printing.

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