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Make Fast Concordance

A Fast Concordance is one where you specify which words to pick from the source text.  The whole text is read and all instances of the words you have picked are selected and displayed in their contexts. All other words are rejected.

You can make a Fast 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 Fast Concordance is much quicker than making a Full Concordance because the program has to handle only the words you have picked.

    Picking Words

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

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

    Choose among them using Word Selection Method in the Make Fast 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.