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Show duplicate words separately
Concordance normally aggregates (gathers together) all instances of each word it finds in your text (that is, all tokens of each type). Each word is displayed once in the Wordlist, with a count of the number of times it occurs. So, for example:
ABATED 1
ABLE 6
and so on. You can change this by choosing Show duplicate words separately on the Headwords menu. Then, each occurrence of each word will have a separate entry in the Wordlist, like this:
ABATED 1
ABLE 1
ABLE 1
ABLE 1
ABLE 1
ABLE 1
ABLE 1
You do not need to re-make your concordance to show duplicate words separately. You can change from showing words aggregated to showing them separately, and back again, any time your concordance is displayed.
If you combine Treat upper and lower case separately with 'Show duplicate words separately' and then sort the Wordlist by order of occurrence, you will get an exact list of the words in your text in the order they originally appeared. This can sometimes be useful.
Warning: if your concordance is large, showing duplicate words separately will result in an enormous number of entries in the Wordlist. This slows Windows down a lot, will try your patience, and may possibly exceed your computer's memory resources.