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26 changes: 21 additions & 5 deletions episodes/03-working-with-MARC-files.md
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title: Working with MARC files
teaching: 20
teaching: 17
exercises: 1
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<td>mrc
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<td>File format typically used in an ILS or LSP. Other file extensions provided by vendors (ex. marc, dat, bin) are equivalent. Binary is format consisting of a series of sequential bytes, each of which is eight bits in length.
<td>File format typically used in an ILS or LSP. Other file extensions provided by vendors (ex. marc, dat, bin) are equivalent. Binary is a format consisting of a series of sequential bytes, each of which is eight bits in length.
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<td>File format used by MarcEdit that is a human readable version of the binary file.
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<td>OCLC DAT binary file
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<td>dat
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<td>File format used by OCLC, especially on export to a local computer. The export .dat file is a binary MARC21 UTF-8 file.
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<td>MARC UTF-8 Text File
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You can adjust the number of records displayed per 'page' through the MarcEditor preferences which can be accessed through the Edit → Preferences menu option from the MarcEditor, or through the 'Settings' icon on the opening screen of MarcEdit.

Within the MarcEditor preferences you can adjust the font and font size within the MarcEditor. You can also set your character encoding defaults. If you navigate to File Associations within the Preferences window, you can select Associate (`*.mrc`) files with the MarcBreaker and Associate (`*.mrk`) files with the MarcEditor. Setting these file associations will make it easy to break `.mrc` files and edit `.mrk` files.
Within the MarcEditor preferences, you can adjust the font and font size within the MarcEditor. You can also set your character encoding defaults. If you navigate to File Associations within the Preferences window, you can select Associate (`*.mrc`) files with the MarcBreaker and Associate (`*.mrk`) files with the MarcEditor. Setting these file associations will make it easy to break `.mrc` files and edit `.mrk` files.

If you change your preferences for the MarcEditor, the tool used to work with MARC data, you can always go back to the default settings.

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## Reset settings for the MarcEditor in Preferences

1. Click Edit → Preferences
2. Select "MarcEditor" in the Preferences window in the left hand pane
3. In the right hand pane, select Set Defaults for either font or font size
2. Select "MarcEditor" in the Preferences window in the left-hand pane
3. In the right-hand pane, under Set MarcEditor Font Properties, select Set Defaults
4. Click Ok


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## Behavior when you reset your preferences and other popup windows

When you click Ok to reset preferences, there is a chance that the popup window for Preferences and/or even MarcEdit main menu will close. If the MarcEdit main menu closes, sometimes it will reopen. If it does not, then click on MarcEdit again on your desktop to reopen the application. It should be noted that not all popup windows will close automatically such as Find, Replace, or the MarcValidator. However, the Select Records for Edit temporary editor will close if you click Save. These idiosyncracies for each will be covered in their upcoming episodes.
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This doesn't happen for me when I save my preferences, only the preference pop up closes - in your testing does the MarcEdit application close for this action? I wonder if this happened in the lesson because someone had changed other preferences as well? If this is the case it may be worth nothing that some preference updates will force MarcEdit to restart and others will not. We should probably also note that in order for some preference changes to display (such as updating the MarcEditor font settings), you will need to close and reopen the MarcEditor, which would require saving your file if you haven't done so.

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Add callout about preferences needing to be applied by restarting the MarcEditor.


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