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- Common Questions and Answers for New Users
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- Q: How do I ADD a record?
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- A: Choose VIEW. Press 'L' or click LAST for the LAST record.
- Click or press UP arrow. Click EDIT or press 'E' to edit.
- The record you add is logically at the end of the current
- file. You choose "L" (LAST) to see the last record, and
- UP Arrow to get to LAST + 1. As soon as you enter your
- data, the LAST record is now the number of the one you
- entered, and adding another will be at LAST + 1 again.
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- Q: How do I Change or Edit the fields?
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- A: In the MAIN Menu, choose UTILITIES. Choose EDIT COLLECTION
- TYPE. If you wish to change an EXISTING set of fields,
- press the letter key that corresponds. If you wish to CREATE
- a new set, choose an unused letter.
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- Q: It takes too long to LOAD a large file. Can it be shortened?
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- A: Collect! makes an automatic backup of your data under a
- separate file name when loading. You can disable this
- feature and get faster LOADing. In the MAIN menu, choose
- UTILITIES. Choose AUTO SAVE TOGGLE. Press ENTER or click
- the text to turn the AutoSave off. Subsequent LOADs will
- now take 1/2 the time, but the automatic backups will not
- be made.
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- Q: Can text searching be mixed case?
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- A: Sure. Collect! will find "TexT" and "tExT" and "TEXT" just
- the same. However, do not insert spaces or control characters
- into search text, as it tends to confuse things. The best
- idea is to search for a consecutive string of characters,
- such as "couch" or such.
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- Q: Why Common Spelling Files?
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- A: Well... Let's assume you collect dinosaur bones. To make sure
- that searches ALWAYS work, it's easier to pick STENONYCHOSAURUS
- from a list rather than to type it in each time. Subsequent
- searches would be in error if the above name got misspelled
- in any of the records. This is especially true if more than
- one person is adding data to Collect!
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