Insert overview

On the Insert menu, you can do the following (many menu commands are context sensitive):

To insert a

Click

hyperlink to an external file

Link to File

character from the Character Map dialog box

Special character

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Lexicon

To insert a

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Etymology

Etymology

Extended Note

Extended Note

Lexical entry

Entry

Sense

Sense

Subsense

Subsense (in a Sense)

Variant form

Variant

Allomorph

Allomorph

Pronunciation

Pronunciation

Picture

Picture

Reversal entry

Reversal Entry

Sound or movie file

Sound or Movie

Texts & Words

To

Click

insert a New text

New Text

turn on a mode so you can manually insert a Zero-width space character (ZWSP) between words in a text that normally does not have word breaks,

Click Inserts Invisible Space (Baseline tab only). When turned on, your mouse pointer becomes .

To turn this mode off:

  • Press Esc.

  • Click anywhere outside of the Baseline tab.

  • Hide invisible spaces (View menu).

let FLEx guess word breaks in a text,

Guess Word Breaks

insert word glosses into a Free or Lit line that is empty and has the focus (you clicked the line),

Word Glosses

insert a Literal Translation (Lit)line,

Literal Translation

insert Note line,

Note

import a word set,

Import Word Set

Grammar

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Category

Category (or Part of Speech)

Subcategory

Subcategory

Affix Template

Affix Template

Affix Slot

Affix Slot

Inflection Class

Inflection Class

Headed Compound Rule

Headed Compound

Non-headed Compound Rule

Non-headed Compound

Phoneme

Phoneme

Grapheme (of phoneme)

Grapheme

Phonological Feature

Phonological Feature

Phonological Feature value

Feature Value

Natural Class

Natural Class

Environment

Environment

Phonological Rule

Phonological Rule

Metathesis Rule

Metathesis Rule

Ad hoc co-occurrence prevention rule for a morpheme

Rule to prevent morpheme co-occurrence

Ad hoc co-occurrence prevention rule for an allomorph

Rule to prevent allomorph co-occurrence

Ad hoc co-occurrence group

Group of ad hoc rules

Inflectional Feature

Feature

Complex Inflection Feature

Complex Feature

Inflectional Feature value;

Feature Value

Exception "Feature"

Exception "Feature"

Notebook

To insert a

Click

Record

Record

Subrecord

Subrecord

Subrecord in a subrecord

Subrecord in subrecord

Lexical entry into the Lexicon

Entry

Lists

To insert a (Insert a list item or subitem):

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Academic Domain

Academic Domain

Academic Subdomain

Subitem

Anthropology Category

Anthropology Category

Anthropology Category Subcategory

Subcategory

Category (for Reversal Index)

Category

Complex Form Type or Subtype

Complex Form Type or Subtype

Confidence Level

Confidence Level

Custom list

Custom List

Text Chart group or column

Subitem

Education Level

Education Level

Education Sublevel

Subitem

Feature Type

Feature Type

Lexical Reference Type

Lexical Reference Type

Location

Location

Morpheme Type

This is not permitted.

Person

Person

Position

Position

Publication

Publication

Restriction

Restriction

Reversal Index

Reversal Index

Semantic Domain

Semantic Domain

Semantic Subdomain

Subdomain

Sense Type

Sense Type

Status

Status

Subcategory (for Reversal Index)

Subcategory

Text Markup Tag list subitem

Subitem

Translation Type

Translation Type

Usage

Usage

Usage Subitem

Subitem

Variant Type or Subtype

Variant Type or Subtype

Related Topics

Using tools overview (tasks)

Menus overview

Navigation Pane overview

Shortcut keys overview

Toolbars overview

Word-forming apostrophes and glottal stops