Deleting a field

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Deleting a field

• Description
• This tutorial provides a quick overview on using
  the MarcEditors built-in Delete Field function

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Table of Contents
This tutorial will covering the following topics.
To get the most out of this tutorial, please
open MarcEdit and follow along.

• Getting Started
• Opening the MarcEditor
• Selecting a file
• Initializing the Delete Field Dialog
• The Delete Field Dialog
• Making changes
• Conclusion

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Getting Started

• To open MarcEdit, simply click on the MarcEdit
  Icon on your Desktop or select MarcEdit from
  Start/Programs/MarcEdit.
• When MarcEdit opens, it will look like the
  picture below.

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Opening the MarcEditor

• The MarcEditor can be accessed from two
  locations. The first by selecting the File/MARC
  Tools option in the menu and the second by
  selecting the MarcEditor Icon on the main screen.
  See the images below.

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MarcEditor Selecting a file

• For the purposes of this tutorial, please select
  example1.mrk. This file is located at the
  following location (using the default
  installation) c\program files\marcedit\examples\
  example1.mrk. If you have another file that you
  would like to use for the purpose of this
  tutorial, feel free to use that file instead.
• Opening the file
• Either select File/Open from the Menu
• Or click on the following icon

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Initializing the Delete Field Dialog

• The Delete Field function can be initialized by
  clicking on the Tools/Delete Field Menu option.

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Delete Field Dialog Description

• The Delete field dialog has one arguments
• Select Field This is the field that you would
  like to Delete.
• Please note The Field Data text box has been
  grayed out and disabled because this argument is
  not currently in use by this function.

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Making the Changes
To globally delete a field, select the field to
be deleted, and click the Delete Field button.
When the changes have been made, the program will
report the number of fields deleted.
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Conclusion

• Remember, after making edits, you must always
  remake MarcEdits mnemonic file format back into
  MARC to be loading by most electronic catalogs.
• Overall, I have tried to make the MarcEditor
  editing functions as easy to use as possible.
  From reading this tutorial, users should now be
  able to
• Open a file into the MarcEditor
• Initialize the Delete Field Dialog
• Delete a field from a set of MARC records.
• If you have suggestions on how this tutorial
  could have been more helpful for you, feel free
  to contact terry.reese_at_orst.edu