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Moving through records – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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Moving through records

Use the record book to move or browse through records. Start by choosing
Browse or List from the Layout menu.

To go to the same field in the next record, press

2-Return. To go to the same

field in the previous record, press

2-Shift-Return.

Delete a record

Choose Delete Record from the Edit menu. If you change
your mind, before you do anything else, click

on the

Default button bar, or choose Undo from the Edit menu to
restore the record.

Temporarily delete a record that
you want to move or paste back
in later

Click

on the Default button bar, or choose Cut from the

Edit menu. Keep in mind that if any other records or text
are copied or cut in the meantime, the record is lost.

Move one or more records
within the same database, to
reorder them

Use drag and drop to drag the records to the new position.
(You can view records in a particular order, regardless of
the order in which they were entered, by sorting them. See
“Sorting records” on page 8-22.)

Move one or more records to a
different database with similar
fields

Open the other database, and then use drag and drop to
drag the records to the other database.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

To

Select the record to duplicate, delete, or move,
and then

In the Help index,

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see:

E

databases, using

Drag to move across many
records at once

Click here, type the number of the record to go to, and
then press Return

Click to go to the

previous record

Click to go to the

next record