A sample (Documents\wsmith8\concordance_search_words.txt) is included with the distribution files.

Use a Windows editor (e.g. Notepad) to prepare your own. Each one must be on a separate line of your file. No comment lines can be included, though blank lines may be inserted for readability.

Then, instead of typing in each word or phrase in the Search Word dialogue box, just browse for the file.

Then press Load to read the entries (or Clear if you change your mind).

Context

If you want to require a context for a given word, put context:= as in this example:

book context:=hotel

(which seeks book and only shows results if hotel comes in the current collocate horizons).

If you want to specify different horizons for a particular line, use [[ and ]] as here:

book context:=hotel [[2,4]]

This restricts the context search for hotel to the span 2 words left of book and 4 words to the right.

Exclusions

To exclude a word or phrase, put exclude:= as in this example:

book exclude:=hotel

(which seeks book and only shows results if hotel does not come in the current collocate horizons).

Multiple searches

You can put multiple search-terms on the same line:

book/table context:=hotel/chair/cheese

That would search for

book with 3 possible contexts (hotel or chair or cheese)

and separately

table with 3 possible contexts (hotel or chair or cheese)

The same syntax is used for multiple exclusions.

Where Concord has been called up from WordList, and the highlighted word in the word list is the head entry with lemmas, a temporary file will be created, listing the whole set of lemmas, and Concord will use this file-based search-word procedure to compute the concordance.