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Concordance (AntConc) searching for contractions only?

Hi! I need to collect the statistics for all the contracted forms in my data but I can't do it manually because there is just too much text, and the 'word list' feature in 'AntConc' treats contracted forms as two separate words, for example, can't will become can and t. Is there a way of fixing this problem or searching for contracted forms only in concordance? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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