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Web Browser

Choose Web Browser on the Tools Menu to start the Web browser on your computer and go to the home page you have configured.

If this function fails, check that the computer has a correctly configured web browser and that it is registered with Windows to handle HTML files.

You will automatically be offered the choice of starting your web browser after choosing Build Web Concordance or Save as HTML on the File Menu.  In this case the newly-built Web Concordance or HTML file will be displayed in your browser.

If you make a large concordance and turn it into HTML, it may be bigger than your web browser can handle.  If you save a large concordance as a single HTML file, be prepared for a long wait when you load it into your web browser. Typically the web browser loads your whole HTML file and then appears to lock up for some time - in fact it is building HTML links at this stage.  I have seen this take as long as five minutes.

Web Concordances allow you to overcome this problem by splitting files. 

If you have chosen to format your HTML concordance with tables, the web browser has to load your whole HTML file before it can display anything.  Your browser may appear to lock up for a long time when the concordance is almost fully loaded - in fact, it is working out the appearance of the table.  To avoid these long delays, go to HTML Setup and choose to format your concordance with <pre> instead of with tables.