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# WRITE TO FIELDS OF LISTED SPECIES/GENES OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### ARB_NT/Species/Search: WRITE TO FIELDS OF LISTED ### ARB_NT/Genes/Search: WRITE TO FIELDS OF LISTED
## DESCRIPTION
### Writes the same text or integers to the selected fields of all listed species/genes.
## NOTES
### A protection level has to be selected from the Protection menu of the main window (ARB_NT/Protection) equal or higher than that assigned to the selected alignment (ARB_NT/ali_*; third broad rectangular button in the upper part of the main window).
## EXAMPLES
1. Write a date of sequence modification (03.27.95) to the fields 'date' of all listed species and replace former entries of these fields:
       Select 'Field' by pressing:     'date'
       Type 'Text or integer':         '03.27.95'
       Press:                          'WRITE'
2. Add the initials of the modifying person (OS) to the entries stored in the fields 'date' of all listed species:
       Select 'Field' by pressing:     'date'
       Type 'Text or integer':         'OS'
       Press:                          'APPEND'
## WARNINGS
### Except for the 'name' field (the identifier), there are no different protection levels for different fields. Take care not to write to fields which should contain unique entries for the corresponding species/genes such as accession numbers.
## BUGS
### No bugs known