Creating a concordance using tags

Step by step:

1.	Start Concord.

2.	Choose Settings \| Tags. Press the Load button to load up the BNC World.tag file or BNC_XML.tag included with your installation.

The button says "(17) Clear" if you have loaded it, and you should also see this view of the details:

loaded tag file

3.	In the Concord settings (Settings \| Concord), ensure you're going to get plenty of text, because the tags take up some of the room. Perhaps 600 characters per line.

600_characters_per_conc_line

4.	Close the Settings (pressing OK).

5.	Back in Concord, choose File \| New, and at the leftmost tab, make sure you choose some BNC text. I've chosen a whole folderful with 87 files in it.

choosing BNC text in Concord

6.	Choose a search-word in the next tab (Search Word):

7.	Let the concordance run.

happy concordanced 1

8.	Hide the mark-up if you want (View \| Tag hiding \| tag file tags) so that this

BNC_XML_markup_too_long

reduces to this

BNC_XML_markup_hidden

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