Thanks Sheryl, it worked like charm :-)

Gosia

Bissen, Sheryl wrote:
> I would take the simple way out and Find and Replace  '856 40 ‡u http://www.springerprotocols.com/BookToc' with '859 40 ‡u http://www.springerprotocols.com/BookToc' and then delete all 859's as long as that is not a field you would be using for anything else.   This should work as long you isolate text that is common to one of the fields and not the other.
>
> Good luck
>
> Sheryl Bissen
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> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gosia Fort
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> Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Deleting fields
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> Is there a way to delete the first occurrence of a field in MARCEdit? I have two 856 with exactly the same indicators and would like to get rid off one since they are linking to the same resource:
> 856 40 ‡u http://www.springerprotocols.com/BookToc/doi/10.1385/1592592635
> 856 40 ‡u
> http://www.springerprotocols.com/doiresolver?genre=book&pid=10.1385/1592592635
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gosia
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