Merging duplicate part of speech categories

[Eric Jackson]

Hi, everyone. I'm working with a student who has imported a large amount of lexical data into FLEx that was originally a plain text file. Somehow in this process, she ended up with duplicated grammatical categories; for instance, looking in the Grammar area under Category Edit, she sees this: (apologies for the resolution; this is a screen-grab of a Zoom meeting)

As one method to merge these duplicated categories, I can imagine a process like this:

1. In the Grammar area under Category view, rename each duplicated category so it's easier to see which is which (like "VExpr intr 1" and "VExpr intr 2")

2. In the Lexicon area under Bulk Edit, change the category for all "VExpr intr 2" senses to be "VExpr intr 1"

3. In the Grammar area under Category view, delete the now-unused "VExpr intr 2"

(and repeat these steps for each duplicated category)

Is there any better way to do this? I haven't come across any menu item that would let me merge categories, comparable to the way to merge senses.

Thanks for your advice!

Warmly,

Eric

Eric Jackson

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