Designing an Index

The benefit of using an index rather than Acrobat’s Search feature is speed. When you are working with hundreds of documents, building an index and including it with the documents it indexes will make searching much quicker.

Henry plans to create a read-me file so users can work with the index more effectively. A read-me file is a set of instructions that accompanies many products, such as software, databases, programs, and other computer content. Using a read-me file is a conventional way of providing additional information to users; the very name of the file says it all.