Reference Manual

Locality 1) To view Locality or Site Name/Date records, choose "Edit" (or
"Browse") from the "Locality" menu.
2) At the prompt, type in the Field Number for the record you wish to
find. The record with that Field Number will be retrieved, if it is
present, and shown on screen (see Figure 4). If you are using a Site
Name system, a prompt for Site Name will appear. If you combine the
site name keyword with the "*" as a modifier, a range of records for the
matching site name will appear.
Figure 2 Locality record form with typical data fields
Wildcards 3) If the record is not found, you will be asked if you want to do a wild
card search. If so, just press .
Paging Through Records
Editing A Record
You can also enter a wild card search directly. The wild card for Field
Numbers and Site Name/Date is an "*" and this can be entered directly
after numbers or letters. For example, if "G*" is entered, the first
record with a Field Number or Site Name/Date starting with a "G" (or
"higher" letter) will be found. This is useful if you are not sure if a
collector used two or three of his or her initials for a Field Number or if
you are uncertain as to the spelling of a Site Name. Or, the collector's
initials followed by * would find the alphanumerically-sorted "first"
collection made by a particular collector. Direct wild card searches are
not permitted for numeric search keys.
When editing or browsing records, you may page forward or backward through
adjacent records by pressing the and keys, respectively. See
also "Changing the Search Field."
Moving Through Fields Use the cursor keys, < > and < >, to move from data field to data field within
a record. Alternatively, you may use to move to the next field and
(hold down and press ) to move to the previous
field.
Within multi-line fields, < > and < > scroll the lines of data to show additional
text, when present.
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6 Browsing and Editing