Making a Concordance

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When you press the Concord button in the main Controller, a new Concord Tool opens up and will be visible in the Windows Taskbar. 

       

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Now in Concord itself, choose File | New.        

 

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If no text files have been chosen, you are asked to choose some. Press the Choose Texts Now button.         

 

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Once the texts have been chosen, enter a suitable Search Word

 

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Here I have chosen wherefore as my search-word. Then press Go Now.         

       

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The concordance lists all the examples of "wherefore" which had a word-separator such as punctuation, space etc. before and after it.         

Since we have now done our concordance, WordSmith now knows how many words there are in each text file: rom06.txt has 1,506 altogether; rom8.txt is bigger (2,236 words).         

       

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