Sometimes you may want to make changes to more than one record at once. In that case, “Global Edit” is the tool to use. Global edit will operate on your current reference list. If you want the changes to be applied to all the references in your database, click the menu command "References | Retrieve All" first. To use global edit, click on the menu command “Tools | Utility | Global Edit…”. In the Global Edit window, you need to first select a data field for the global edit operation. All the changes will be limited to this field only.
Insert at the beginning of field's text: Insert the text in the editing box at the beginning of the selected data field for all records in the current list.
Insert at the end of field's text: Insert the text in the editing box at the end of the selected data field for all records in the current list.
Replace the whole field with: Replace the text in the selected data field with the text in the editing box for all records in the current list.
Clear the text of field: Clear the selected data field for all records in the current list.
Convert words to title case: Convert all words except the ones in the reserved word list to title case. The reserved word list can be edited.
Tip: You may not want to convert some words to title case, for example: then, an, DNA… The words you want Biblioscape not to change the case of can be added to the file “c:\program files\ biblioscape\global\caseWord.txt”. Or, you can add words to this file directly on the right of the window under "Words not to be changed during case conversion".
Convert words to lower case: Convert all words except the ones in the reserved word list to lower case. The reserved word list can be edited in the "Options" window.
Convert words to upper case: Convert all words except the ones in the reserved word list to upper case. The reserved word list can be edited in the "Options" window.