Copying a list of Headwords

Copying a list of Headwords

You can easily copy words from the Wordlist View.

As elsewhere in Concordance, if you have chosen to display Frequencies and Percentages with your headwords, they will be included. To copy headwords alone, first turn off the display of Frequencies and Percentages using the Headwords menu.

To copy all words:

Right-click on the Wordlist View. On the pop-up menu, choose Copy all words to Clipboard. You can then paste the words into any other Windows program, including the Multiple Document Editor which comes with Concordance.

To copy selected words only:

First choose Multi-select on the Edit menu. If there are many words in the Wordlist, there will be a delay while Windows does a lot of housekeeping. Now you can highlight (select) more than one word in the Wordlist View, using standard Windows selection techniques - Shift+click, Control+click, or Shift+arrow keys.

When you have finished selecting words, choose Copy to Clipboard on the Edit menu. The selected words will be copied, ready for pasting into any Windows program.

About Multi-select

Multi-select is for copying words to the Clipboard, and also for deleting multiple words with a single press of the Del key.

You can't use multi-select to drag and drop multiple words at once. Further, when multi-select is on, it becomes hard, if not impossible, to drag and drop a single word in the Wordlist View or to and from the Scratchpad. Therefore it is best to keep Multi-select turned off when you don't need it for copying multiple words to the Clipboard.

Turning Multi-select on or off causes Windows to do lots of housekeeping which can take a very long time with a large wordlist.

Select All

This command on the Edit menu selects all words for copying to the Clipboard. It works only when Multi-select is active. It is useful if you want to select most words, since it is quicker to select them all first, then deselect a few.

If you really want to select all words for copying, don't bother with Multi-select, but just use the command on the pop-up menu (as described at the top of this help topic).

Saving a word list to a file

You can also save a full list of headwords directly to a file instead of to the Clipboard. First, turn off the display of contexts by clicking on the tab marked 'None' at the right-hand edge of the screen. Then choose 'Save as text' from the File menu. The headword list will be saved to a file of your choosing.

You can include or exclude frequencies and percentages along with your headword list by showing or hiding them (using items on the Headwords menu) before you copy to the Clipboard or save to a file.

Similarly you can print headwords only, by turning off the other elements of the display before printing.

See Saving a Concordance.