In the Navigation Pane, click Lexicon, and then click Lexicon Edit or Browse.
In the Entries pane, click the entry that you want to merge into another entry.
Do one of the following:
On the Tools menu, click Merge with entry.
On the Information bar, click the menu button and then click Merge with entry.
The Merge Entry dialog box appears.
In the Find box, enter the form (lexeme, citation, or allomorphs) of the entry into which you want the selected entry to merge. (You may need to change the writing system in the Writing System box.)
The entry you want to merge the selected entry into appears in the Lexical Entries area.
In the Lexical Entries area, select the desired entry.
The informational area at the bottom of the dialog box describes the merge process.
If the informational area describes the correct entries and the intended merge direction, click Merge.
After the merge operation is completed, a Merge Report information box appears.
On the Merge Report information box, click OK.
Because content is appended to existing content in each field, manually review and edit the content in each field. Also, additional fields can be added, and you should review them.
For example, if you merge entries that are complex forms, the entry then has two Complex Form Type field sets. You can likely right-click one and use the Delete Complex Form Info command to delete it.
If the target entry has existing content in a field, any content in the equivalent field from the merged entry is appended into the target entry.
All senses from the merged entry are added ('appended') to the target entry. Use Merge Senses to merge any duplicates.
When merging entries, if the two lexeme forms are identical, the two entries merge without changing the headword.
When merging entries, if the two lexeme forms are not identical, FieldWorks version 6.0 and earlier merged the entries and appended the two lexeme forms together. In the process any interlinearized text permanently lost the distinction in the morpheme line, which is probably not what you wanted. In version 6.0.1 instead of appending the two lexeme forms, the lexeme form from the source entry will become an allomorph of the target entry. This maintains interlinear text morpheme lines. If you really want to merge the morpheme lines in interlinear text as happened before, right-click the first line of the new allomorph and choose Merge Allomorph into and choose the lexeme form. This will give the same result as earlier versions (pre 6.0.1), except the lexeme form will remain unchanged instead of appending the two forms.