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The Concordance pane, opened in the Tools > Inspectors menu, gives you a tool for analyzing the textual contents of documents. When the inspector is open, selecting different items will show varying results. If one or more documents is selected, the results will be inclusive of the text in all of them. If there is no selection, the results will be based on the text of documents in the current location, whether a group or a database. This also applies to selecting items matched in smart groups, both local and global. These results are presented in three distinct views: List, Cloud, and Graph. List The List view displays the concordance results in a list, separated by these parameters: Word frequency Number of groups with items containing a specific word Word length Word weight (relevance, depends on the contents of the database) Alphabetical listing Click the column headers to sort on a given parameter. Select a word in the list to highlight all occurrences in the current document. Double-click a word to open a database-wide search for the term. Opening the contextual menu in the results offers these options: Copy: Copies the values for the selected word to the clipboard. Exclude/Include Word: Use this to define stop-words or to include them again. Select/Deselect All: Quickly select or deselect the items in the list. Show/Hide Excluded Words: Select this to show or hide any excluded terms. Excluded terms will shown with a strikethrough. Cloud The Cloud view present the concordance as a word cloud. The size of the terms is relative to the frequency in the selection or database. Selecting terms highlights the occurrences in the current document. Related Words Of special note is the Related Words graph shown under the List and Cloud views. Select a word in the list or cloud and it becomes the central term in a graph of related words. These are words found throughout your database. Double-clicking a node initiates a database-wide search. The contextual menu provides options for copying the word's information, as well as excluding the word. Graph The frequency graph shows a graph of the word frequency over the rank number of the word (see above).
Note: There are no contextual menu options in this view.