MarcEdit HTML Help / MarcEditor Startup

MarcEditor Startup Screen:

The MarcEditor provides the user with a functioning Wordpad integrated within the MarcEdit application itself.  It has been provided to aid in the rapid development of records.  In addition to providing the user with a simple wordpad, the MarcEditor contains a number of MARC specific features to help make editing and analying MARC records a snap.  Moreover, the MarcEditor is currently the only part of the MarcEdit program that allows users to interact with it directly through script.  Users are able to print and receive characters from the MarcEditor screen, as well as tap into the Replace Text functions, and the Add/Delete Field functions.  Finally, in MarcEdit 4.5+, the MarcEditor has been improved so that users can now create UTF-8 encoded MARC records.  In previous versions of MarcEdit, the MarcEditor would display unicode characters but not save the data as Unicode.  In MarcEdit 4.5, data can be saved as ANSI (default) or in UTF-8 encoding.  For information on particular elements of the MarcEditor, please see these additional help topics:

• Toolbars
• Menus
• Count Fields
• Find/Replace Text
• Add/Delete Files
• MarcEditor syntax for record creation
• Using Regular Expressions in MarcEditor Replacement Function