RE: [IUG] Examining raw SCAT tables

["Hahn, Harvey" <hhahn at ahml dot info>]

Geoffrey Skinner wrote:
|Is there a way of looking at (or even better, editing) a raw SCAT table

|rather than working line by line in A > A> S > G? I attended Judith 
|Clark's presentation at IUG and didn't note whether that was possible.

If you are merely seeking to view your entire SCAT table at once, then
you might find useful some OCLC Passport macros/scripts that I wrote and
which I described on this list a month ago [May 3, "SCAT table tools
(scripts)"].  Go to this URL:

      <http://www.ahml.info/oml/innopac.html>

and look for the red heading "SCAT Tables" (between 2/3 and 3/4 of the
way down the page).  The macro/script "CopyScatEntriesToFile" will dump
your entire SCAT table to a text file on your PC which you can then
import into Excel, for example, to view in a more structured manner.  (I
might mention, too, that you will be able to see the ENTIRE 20
characters of the beginning and ending terms and not just the first 12
characters as in INNOPAC.)  If you are wanting to actually edit and
reimport, the macros/scripts will help with that, too.  See the
directions for using Excel for this purpose.  Hope this helps!

Harvey
 
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