Altering the Wordlist

Altering the Wordlist

You can alter the wordlist by re-arranging the headwords in it and by editing and deleting them. You can also show all duplicate words separately instead of merged together.

Re-arranging headwords

Sorting is the primary means of arranging words - it's fundamental to the usefulness of any concordance or wordlist - and many sorting options are available.

Besides sorting, Drag and Drop or the Scratchpad can be used to re-arrange words individually.

Lemmatising is a special case of sorting, allowing you to arrange related words in the order you desire.

Editing and deleting headwords

Many ways of selecting words are available on the Headwords Menu. When you select words, those not selected disappear from the list of headwords.

To delete a word, highlight the word and press the Del key or choose Delete Headword from the Edit Menu. To delete many words at once, choose Multi-select on the Edit menu, highlight the words, then press the Del key. See the help on Multi-select in Copying a list of Headwords.

You can edit individual headwords - but read this first and proceed with caution!

To change the case of words, choose the Change Case item on the Headwords menu.

See also: On not Editing Contexts

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