32-bit version

WordSmith 4 brought in lots of changes "under the hood" after the earlier 16-bit versions of the 1990s. Some of the changes you will see are:

•	long filenames

•	better tag and entity handling including Tag Concordancing

•	previous work can still be used, but it should be re-saved in the 32-bit format. You will get a suggestion to "Update" a data file if it is still in the old format.

•	zip file handling

•	easier exporting of data to Microsoft Word and Excel

•	Unicode text handling, allowing more languages to be processed

•	possibility of altering the data as it comes in, e.g. for language-specific lemmatisation

•	the old limitations of 16,000 lines of data have gone. (The theoretical limit for a list of data is over 134 million lines.)