frequency list, and then rating each sentence in the document according to how many fre-
quently used words appear in the sentence. You then assign a cutoff point, and any sentence
that exceeds the cutoff point is included in the summary.
You might want to try AutoSummarize on highly structured, repetitive documents, just to
see whether it generates anything other than gibberish. To use it, choose Tools,
AutoSummarize (see Figure 19.25). Specify whether you want to highlight the high-scoring
sentences or extract those sentences and use them to create an executive summary.
Figure 19.25
You can use the
AutoSummarize fea-
ture to highlight ...
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