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Selecting words

Choose 'Select Words' on the Headwords menu to select amongst the words present in the Wordlist View by a number of criteria.  

The words you select will remain in the Wordlist View and others will be removed from it.  Only those which remain will be printed, saved, or exported as HTML.

If you want to undo the effect of removing some words, choose Revert on the File Menu. This re-loads the last saved version of the concordance. That will be the original version if it has not been altered and saved since it was made.

You can re-create a full version of a concordance at any time by choosing Make Full Concordance on the File Menu.

Making a Selective Concordance is an alternative way of selecting words as the source text is being read, rather than while the words are displayed. Afterwards, you can further select using Select Words on the Headwords menu.

Selecting words using patterns

From the Headwords menu, choose Select Words Matching or Select Words not Matching.  You will be asked to enter a word which may include the pattern-matching symbols (wildcards) ?, standing for any one letter, and *, standing for any number of any letters.  

You can combine these to produce powerful selection criteria:
To do this: Type this:

Select all words of a certain length, e.g. words of 4 characters:

????

Select all words greater than a certain length, e.g. words of 4 characters and over

????*

Select words beginning with a prefix, e.g. words beginning with 'un-'

un*

Select words ending with a suffix, e.g. words ending in '-ing'

*ing

Select words which begin with 'un' and end with 'ing'

un*ing

Select words which begin with 'un' and contain 't'

- first select by typing un*

- then select again by typing *t*

Select all words which contain the letter 'e'

*e*

Select all words

(this keeps all the words currently in the Wordlist - i.e. it has no effect!)

*