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Locator Increment or Decrement

Sometimes, during data entry, you will encounter situations where you will want to increment or decrement the locator. These commands allow you to do just that. Please note that these commands only work in the Grid.

Example 1

By default, SKY Index will repeat the current locator automatically when you start a new record. There are two common situations you’ll encounter while doing your data entry. First, you may simply get to the point of needing to increment the current page by one. For example, let’s say you have completed an entry from page 1, the grid marquee is now in the Append Row of the grid as shown below and you want to enter the main and subheading “clients, building a good relationship with” on page 2:

	Main	Sub1	Page
	indexing	back-of-book	1
*			1

To do this, you would type the main and subheadings and then press Tab or Enter so that the marquee is over the Page field as shown below:

	Main	Sub1	Page
	indexing	back-of-book	1
	clients	building a good relationship with	1
*
Before incrementing

Then you would press either the plus key (+) on the keypad or Ctrl+. (Control+Period) to increment page 1 to page 2. Note: Although the marquee does not have to be over the Page field, the marquee must be visible for this command to work. This means you cannot be in Edit Mode.

	Main	Sub1	Page
	indexing	back-of-book	1
	clients	building a good relationship with	2
*
After incrementing

Example 2

Let’s assume that you have completed the entry below from page 1, and when you flip the page, you realize that this topic continues on page 2. In this case you want to create a page range of 1-2.

	Main	Sub1	Page
	indexing	back-of-book	1
*

To do this, you press Alt+. (Alt+Period) which will create a page range with the second number one higher than the existing number:

	Main	Sub1	Page
	indexing	back-of-book	1-2
*

Incrementing or Decrementing Locators

The following must be true for this feature to work

You must be using the Grid
The grid must be in View Mode (the marquee must be visible)

Command	Keystroke
Increment left number	Ctrl+. (period) or Keypad + (plus)
Decrement left number	Ctrl+, (comma) or Keypad – (minus)
Increment right number	Alt+. (period)
Decrement right number	Alt+, (comma)

Notes:

It may make it easier to remember these commands if you note that the characters above the comma and period keys are ‘<’ and ‘>’.
Any time a decrement or increment would result in both the left and right numbers being equal, the range is deleted.
Anytime you use an 'Alt' command on a locator that does not have a range, a range is created.
These functions will work on both Arabic numbers and Roman Numerals
These functions will also work on multiple selected records.