Important below.Ignore the first two steps below if you accessed the New Entry dialog box from a different dialog box, such as Find Lexical Entry or area, such as Affix template table (Grammar), from a word focus box (Texts), or from a fieldnote record (Notebook). See Important below.
In the Navigation Pane, click Lexicon, and then click Lexicon Edit, Browse or Dictionary.
Open the New Entry dialog box in one of these ways:
On the Insert toolbar, click 
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On the Insert menu, click Entry.
Press the shortcut keys Ctrl+E.
In the Lexeme Form box, enter the lexeme form. (You can enter a citation form later.)
If the Similar Entries pane lists an existing entry that you can use or modify (such as insert a new sense) click that entry, and then click the Go to similar entry link.
If there is not a similar entry, then do the following:
In the Morpheme Type box, select the morpheme type for the new entry.
The Morpheme Type box selection determines which boxes are available in the Grammatical Info pane. For affixes, the Affix Type box content further determines which boxes are available.
If the lexeme form is complex (has components, such as multi-word expression), select a Complex Form Type.
If the Grammatical Info area shows the Category box, select the category for the new entry or More to open the Add from Catalog dialog box.
If the Grammatical Info area shows the Affix Type box, select the affix type. Then, select content for the Attaches to Category box. Then, select content for either the Changes to Category or the Fills Slot box, depending on which is displayed.
The Fills Slot box is unavailable if no slots have been added in Category Edit for the selected category.
In the Gloss box, enter a gloss for the new entry.
The Morphosyntactic Gloss Assistant (MGA) is available for inflectional affixes. Click the Inflectional Affix Gloss Builder link to open it. The MGA helps you construct the gloss. The gloss is added to the default (top) writing system in the Gloss box. The MGA also creates inflection features and feature types.
Click Create.
Select, choose, insert, or enter content in other lexical fields, as appropriate. See Lexicon Edit overview. For example, Choose components for a complex lexeme form.
ImportantIf you jumped to the New Entry dialog box from another dialog box (such as clicking Create in the Find Lexical Entry dialog box), then the Lexeme Form box usually contains content when New Entry dialog box opens. If the Writing System box in the Find Lexical Entry dialog box was set to an analysis writing system, the Lexeme Form box content is in an analysis writing system. Language Explorer permits you to create a lexical entry, but that entry will not have a headword because lexeme forms and citation forms use vernacular writing systems.
FLEx will remove any Complex Form Info section fields if you leave the entry before you choose components. This prevents entries from being partially-defined complex forms. In this case, see Change the "entry type".
Grammatical categories are organized hierarchically. The particular hierarchy in your language project affects how Language Explorer handles categories for derivational affixes, Stem Names and so on. See Category Edit overview for more information.
If you selected <Not Sure> in the Affix Type, then Grammatical Info Details in the Lexicon may be empty, or may display that the entry is an affix found on the selected part of speech.
From a word focus box, if you select Create New Entry, the Go to similar entry link changes to Add allomorph to similar entry.
Change homograph numbers includes considerations for homograph orders.
If necessary, see Section 2.1.5 Derivation versus Inflection in the document A Conceptual Introduction to Morphological Parsing which you access from the Help menu.
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