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From: ralph@world.std.com (Ralph Lombreglia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Fields in HC 2.0 - unable to modify in field selection mode
Summary: Changing the field or its contents?
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.032716.1955@world.std.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 03:27:16 GMT
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Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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>Under pre-2.0 HC, I could select the field tool, select the field
>that I wanted to modify, and just type.

Your terminology is very loose and misleading.  Don't you mean that
you selected the *browse* tool (the pointing finger which becomes an
"I-beam" when it's over an unlocked field), and then you put the
insertion point in a field and typed?  The way you stated it, the only
thing you could be typing is a new name for the field in the "Field
Info" window.  Not trying to flame you, but it's hard to know what
you're asking.

I strongly suspect that you have this field set to "shared text"; if
so, you will be able to edit its contents only if you are in the
background layer; if you don't want the same text on every card, turn
off the shared attribute.  Another possibility is that you simply have
the field locked, in which case unlock it.