<< Click to Display Table of Contents >> Navigation:  Translator III > Lexicon management > General management > Global changes

Global changes in a lexicon isn’t as common as global changes in the Drawing Manager or in the Catalogue. In some situations it might however be useful.

 

So, if you would like to enter the same text (it could even be an empty text), to many entries in a lexicon, it is possible to do that easily and effectively in the following way:

 

Begin by selecting all lines that you want to change a text in, for example by clicking at the first one with the left mouse-button and then pressing the <SHIFT> key while clicking at the last entry. The selected entries are then marked. The selection can also be made using the <CTRL> key, which makes it possible to select a number of entries which are not located directly after one another. This way of selecting corresponds to the Windows standard for selection of items.

 

When the entries that you are going to change have been selected in this way, you keep the <SHIFT> key pressed down, while clicking twice in the field that you want to change in the last selected entry.

 

You may save one click if you click in the field that you want to change already when you click the last line of the <SHIFT> or <CTRL> selection. Then only one more click is needed!

 

Please note that you are not supposed to double-click. You should make two single clicks. When this is done in a correct way, the entries are still marked, but the field that is supposed to be changed has an inverted colour marking.

 

Enter the new text and make a mouse-click somewhere else in the lexicon. Then the new information is transferred to all selected entries.

 

The next time you click the Reorganise button, all changes are transferred to the Lexicon Database.

 

In this way, it is also possible to make a global edit of a large number of fields or columns at the same time. To do so, when “clicking somewhere else”, please once again press down SHIFT, and click twice in the next desired field for editing.

 

When you get used to these procedures you will find that the Lexicon Editor is a very effective tool.

 

As usual, changes are saved when the Reorganise button is clicked. This by now obvious fact won’t be mentioned again below.