Make Full Concordance

Make Full Concordance

A Full Concordance is one which includes all words from the source text, except any you have specified in the Stop List. (Use of the Stop List is optional.) The whole text is read and words are selected and displayed in their contexts.

You can make a Full Concordance

from Files - using any plain text file (or files) that you choose; or

from the Clipboard - using the text in any other open Windows application which is able to copy plain text to the Clipboard.

After making a Full Concordance, you can always remove words from the Wordlist using Select Words on the Headwords menu. If you know in advance which words you want to reject, use the Stop List. If you know in advance which words you want to select, it is easier to make a Fast Concordance, which picks only your chosen words.

If your source text is large, making a Full Concordance takes longer than making a Fast Concordance. However, once the full concordance has been made and displayed, it is quicker to browse around in it than to do repeated fast concordances with different selections of words each time.

See also: Make Fast Concordance