Reformatting a MARC Record

When you reformat a MARC record, Horizon sorts the tags of the MARC record in the order that your system administrator designates and deletes all unused tags and fields that may occur in the record. This lets you create or edit a bib record and enter tags as you think of them, rather than in any specific order.

Reformatting a record makes the record appear as it will be when you save it. This process does not update any links or any indexes associated with the record.

Constraints

If you reformat before you save, you can use Undo ( ) and Redo ( ) to alter your current changes to the record. You cannot use Undo and Redo once you save the record because saving the record applies the changes to the Horizon database.
In order for Horizon to update links and indexes, you must save the record after you format it. Using the reformatting feature only lets you see your changes before they actually take affect in Horizon.

Your system administrator can set up the MARC Editor to sort tags alphabetically, numerically, by numerical group, or not at all. (For instructions, see “Setting Up or Changing General Cataloging Type Parameters” in the “Setting Up or Changing Valid MARC Record Components” section of the Cataloging Setup Guide.)

To reformat a MARC record

1 Open a MARC record.
2 Make the changes that you want to make.
3 Choose Marc, Reformat, or click the Reformat Record icon ( ) on the toolbar in the edit window.

Horizon removes any unused tags and subfields and puts added tags

 


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