In 2007, one of my Word documents allowed me to store several pieces of information: Book title, page number, author and then the quote that I wanted to preserve. I can then organize it by category depending on what I am and how I am wanting to store it.

Well, I am now using Office 365 and this feature is not found. I have tried to use One Note but found that to be very bulky and clunky. I had thought of using Excel but again, no real way to categorize anything the way I want.

What do you all, especially if you are a writer, use to keep and retain quotes to pull up later? What system is there? Thanks.

Sounds more like a Spread Sheet in Excel and or Database interface like Microsoft Access...

Word is more like a word processor for writing a research paper, letter, memo or some other type of document.

I'm no expert on Excel, but I use it for storing all kinds of info and I can sort by column if need be.

jmho, YMMV and others may differ...  :)

In excel you can do different tabs across the bottom (and name them whatever you want) for different categories? Just a thought.

Thank you for your thoughts. I had thought about that and actually tried it. For small amount of quotes, it works great. What I run into problems is when I end up with some odd 1,000 quotes that sometimes can be put into other places and then trying to organize the bottom of the excel.

I am about ready to start another book that has over 1000 pages and I know there will be a few in there that I want to preserve.

Sounds like you really need a database and one that maybe you can add tags too...

So you can catalog or sort by
Author
Title
Subject
Date
Publisher
Page
Quote

then also add #Tags to it, as many quotes may be used for different things or reasons.

A long time ago I had a database/app/search tool for Graphic Images that I used for a Sign and Printing Business.
Once the graphics were in, I could sort by any number of categories or tags (that I created, for each image) and that was so useful, vs just trying to come up with a good descriptive file name for each image.

If you come across a word doc that does what you want, I'd be interested to see it or a few screen shots of it...  
I know all the Office apps are at least some what customizable to really customizable.   Always something new to learn.

Here are two Online Searchable Databases for Inspiration.

http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/

https://www.successories.com/iquote/keywords

I did not see the ability to search by tags though.  I find that so useful.

The database idea is exactly what I am looking for!

The two links you have are good! Thanks!

I am going to see if I can find anything that would work. If I can, I will send you a note.

Eta @smullen

I sent a pm. Zotero.