Percentages

Percentages

Choose Show Percentages on the Headwords Menu to show the occurrences of each headword as a percentage of the total number of words kept from the source text. If you have chosen options that select words from the source text, instead of retaining every word, then percentages are relative to the words selected, not to the text as a whole.

As with all statistics, you should satisfy yourself that you know how they have been derived, and that they match what you would expect, before you rely on them. It is always a good idea to test your settings by using a few very small files to begin with.

If percentages are showing when you choose to Print, Print Preview, Save as Text or as HTML, or to build a Web Concordance, the percentages will be shown in the output.

After you edit the Wordlist, statistics, including the frequencies of occurrence of each headword, are re-calculated automatically in the background if your computer supports it. You can invoke a full re-calculation at any time by choosing Recalculate Statistics on the View menu or typing Control+R.