General Tips

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If a book has more than one author, you should separate their names by a semi-colon, so that Tellico will know to split them and use them separately. Any other field which allows multiple values should be entered the same way. with a semi-colon (;) separating each value.

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You can change which fields are shown in the list view by right-clicking on the column header.

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You can add, edit, or modify the fields in the collection using the Collection Fields Dialog. The arrow buttons below the field list can be used to change the position of the field in the list, which affects the placement in the entry editor.

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You can edit more than one entry at a time, by holding down the Shift or Ctrl key and selecting multiple entries.

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You can convert an existing book collection to a bibliography, which can then be exported to bibtex or Bibtexml format.

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If more than one field is formatted as a name, then an additional group named "People" is added to the collection, allowing authors and editors to be sorted or printed together, for example.

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You can modify the appearance of the printed output by modifying the tellico-printing.xsl file. The file generates HTML, and the CSS within the stylesheet governs things like the font, the margins, etc.

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Double-clicking an entry item opens the Entry Editor.

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You can add HTML tags to any Paragraph field for formatting, such as <b>bold</b> or <i>italic</i>.

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In the Column View, you can press a letter on the keyboard to skip to the next entry that starts with that letter.

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You can use derived values to combine values from multiple fields into a single value. Just check the derived value box and use a value template similar to "Value: %{fielda}%{fieldb}" where %{...} gets replaced with the appropriate field value. This is useful to collect multiple values in a single field, e.g. for better grouping, and to combine fields of different types by respecting proper sorting at the same time. Consider for example a number field followed by a text subfield with entries 3b, 14a.