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Saving and restoring settings

Concordance automatically saves many of the settings and options which you choose and restores them the next time the program is run.

Remember that options which are right for one project may be quite wrong for another.  If you get very unexpected results when you make a new concordance, check in particular that you have suitable settings in these dialogs (all on the Text menu):
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    Technical details about stored settings

    All settings and options are stored in a file called Concordance.Ini which is normally kept in the Windows directory.  (If you need to keep it elsewhere, a Windows Registry setting can be changed: see this topic.) 

    If you want to restore all default settings, you can delete or rename this file when Concordance is not running.  It will be re-created with default options.

    Concordance.Ini is in standard Windows .ini file format.  If you are familiar with .ini files, you can edit Concordance.Ini as necessary, using a plain text editor, or view it if you suspect some settings may be wrong or the file may be corrupt.  Do this when Concordance is not running. 

    If you want to switch between different projects with very different settings, you can keep copies of their .Ini files under different names.  Then, when the program is not running, copy the .Ini file containing the settings you want so that it overwrites the default  .Ini file.