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Old 02-22-2017, 03:49 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
No, use Search and Replace to clear them or give them a common value. If the common value is formatted text try this ==>> do one in Single MDE, copy the html to clipboard, and paste that into the Replace with box in Bulk MDE.
No that does not work. No matter how many books I select, it will only 'replace' if there is already something in the column. Not helpful for my purposes.

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All I can suggest is a saved search or VL for empty column and Bulk MDE to set the default value. Or sort on the column and Bulk MDE on the empties.

And advantage of editing metadata data in the book list is that its easy to get things like this right when books are first added - especially if you add into an intake library.

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Which is what I do now...when I add a book, I change that value to what I want. It would, however, be nice to be allowed to choose whether or not to have a blank value is all. All these little steps add up to a lot of time!
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