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1. Click Books on the ABE spine. The Find Books screen is displayed.
2. Click the Add icon .
3. Type the book information.
Note: Many of the fields have drop-down lists to reduce the amount of typing and speed up data entry. Just click on the arrow and click the option that describes the book, or type the information and the list of possibilities is narrowed. See Intelligent Fields below.
You can attach a book to a catalog. For more information refer to: Attaching a book to a catalog .
4. Click the ‘Save’ button to save the information and return to the Find Books screen or click the ‘Save/New’ button to save the book and add another book.
HomeBase 2 assigns each new entry a Book #, which appears in the first field ("Book #"). You may choose to assign your own Book #s, as long as each Book # is unique. To do this, go to the Options screen.
Intelligent Fields
· Most fields on this screen are Intelligent Fields, which recognize, and fill in, previously entered information.
· An Intelligent Field is identified by the arrow and the pencil to the right of the field.
· As you type the first characters of your entry, HomeBase 2 searches in the drop-down list for matching entries. The first alphabetically matched entry appears in the field as highlighted text. If the matched entry is the one that you want, TAB to the next field. The matched item remains in the field.
· If the matched entry is not the one you want, continue typing your entry. HomeBase 2 will add the new item to the drop-down list for future use. Some fields will prompt you to confirm the addition of the new item and to provide additional information for ABE searches.
Please note: You may turn the "intelligent" field option off for the author and/or publisher fields by clicking on the Options icon in the toolbar and selecting the Editing tab. Remove the check mark in front of the option that you wish to turn off.
Keywords
HomeBase 2 uses words entered in the Keywords field to locate books from the Find function. Enter keywords, which describe the content or category of a book, so that books may be easily located during future searches.
Please note: The keyword field in HomeBase 2 allows you to enter an almost unlimited amount of characters, but only the first 2,000 characters will be saved with your online inventory on abebooks.com.
Entering Book Cost/Price
· Whole currency amounts only require a single number. HomeBase 2 automatically converts the entered number to a currency amount when you leave the field.
· To enter a partial currency amount, you must enter the decimal point after the whole currency amount. (For example, to enter $8.25, type 8.25. HomeBase 2 will convert a whole number to a whole currency amount.)
· You do not need to enter a currency sign such as the $.
· When you move from the field, HomeBase 2 automatically formats the entered number as a currency amount.
· Amounts entered into the "My Cost" field will appear only on your own copy of HomeBase 2. They will not be displayed on ABE, and will not be accessible to other ABE users.
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