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These messages below the input boxes for derived values, will be seen to change again if you then edit another source field. Now you can understand why on this dialog, the values read in from the existing line stay in the input boxes where you have not made an edit. There is no point in making the updates to the derived value fields permanent until you have finished editing the source fields. Consequently, when you have finished your edits to the source fields, you will see a prompt at the bottom of the screen (see image below to left) suggesting you can manually change the derived values to the values shown below those input fields, before you click '''Save edit'''. | These messages below the input boxes for derived values, will be seen to change again if you then edit another source field. Now you can understand why on this dialog, the values read in from the existing line stay in the input boxes where you have not made an edit. There is no point in making the updates to the derived value fields permanent until you have finished editing the source fields. Consequently, when you have finished your edits to the source fields, you will see a prompt at the bottom of the screen (see image below to left) suggesting you can manually change the derived values to the values shown below those input fields, before you click '''Save edit'''. | ||
If you don't want to edit all the derived fields manually, there is an alternative approach also mentioned in the footnotes in image below left, and the next section describes that alternative. | |||
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