Glossaries

Now that I’ve got a bit of free time since completing the final (Career Step), I’m thinking about working on my IT glossaries.

Okay, so, here’s the deal. When I started using IT, I was a bit confused about the need for separate glossaries and just pretty much added EVERYTHING (except meds, labs, headings) to my main glossary. Okay, well, I think I’ve finally gotten a handle on WHY you need separate glossaries, and several weeks ago I created a glossary for each specialty and have been adding to them ever since.

Now, question is, should I move those entries that ought to be in their respective separate specialty glossary, but are in the main glossary instead, to the proper glossary? And how would I do that? Surely not one at a time? And SHOULD I move them?

Have I just created a great big huge mess?

I did go to www.productivitytalk.com, read and printed out the instructions posted by tonks (I think) for using Excel to work with glossaries, but, to be honest, this was a bit above me. This is also an old post, so was wondering if there wasn't a still simplier way to do this?

Also, when I c/p'd my main glossary to the Excel document, all the entries I had added myself had {50 40} (or some such) in front of the shorts. When I pasted them to the Excel document, the numbers with the { } were in the SAME column as the shorts! I could easily delete them IF the { } were in its own separate column, but they weren't.

And thank you, Marianne for the help with the short for re-opening the main glossary the other day!

Kim