Tips and Tricks: Mass Update

Jose Lerebours fpgroups at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 08:16:39 PDT 2016


On 06/03/2016 11:06 AM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
>
> Press F4.  This will put you in update mode - make your corrections - 
> Press ESC (Save) and you will automatically be in update mode on the 
> next record in the index.  Fix that record and ESC and you are in 
> update mode on the next record in the index.
>
> This saves the keystrokes - move to the next record and hit U to update.
>
> Documentation for this feature is hard to find and it has been part of 
> filePro forever.
>
> Hope this jogs your memory or gives you a new tool.
>
> Nancy
>
>

Never heard of this and indeed a nice feature.

Can it be mimicked using @key?  What would be the "pushkey" equivalent 
for F4?




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