I have searched the online manual and threads and I cannot find answers for these two questions:

 

Pierre taught me how to update the value of a field in all items using the Property Pane. But I had to manually expand children items collapsed under parents. Clearly, I clicked on the Items menu and selected expand and when that did not work I clicked on Show all subitems, which exapnded only the children of the selected item. I then selected all of the items to see if I could expand all items in the hierarchy, but that did not work either. I had to manually go down the hierarchy and expand each subitem down through the lineage.The Property Pane will update the field value for only those items that are showing. Since I needed to update the citation filed for all items I created from researching this one book, it was quite time consuming. Is there a faster way to expand all items down through its lineage?

 

My second question is: why are duplicate items appearing at the bottom of my outline? When I selected these stray duplicate items for deletion I found that I could not cut them from the grid. I had to delete them from all grids. ( I saved a backup copy of the file to experiement on.) So when I cut them from the grid all the itmes disappeared. So my first question is: what did I do to create duplicate items at the bottom of the grid and my second question is: how can I delete the stray duplicates  items without deleting the items I want to keep.

 

Thanks

 

Mitchell Kastner