Make Selective Concordance

Make Selective Concordance

A Selective Concordance is one where you specify how to pick words from the source text. The whole text is read and all instances of the words that match your selection criteria are selected and displayed in their contexts. All other words are rejected.

You can make a Selective 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.

If you do not know in advance which words you want to select, make a Full Concordance instead.

If your source text is large, making a Selective Concordance is much quicker than making a Full Concordance because the program has to handle only the words you have picked.

Selecting Words

There are six different ways of selecting the words you want to keep in a Selective Concordance.

Pick List
Phrase searching
Proximity searching
Sampling
Regular Expressions (regex)
References

Choose among them using Word Selection Method in the Make Selective Concordance dialog.

You can also select words (or reject words you don't want) after the concordance has been made by choosing Select Words on the Headwords menu.