====== Mystic Help ======

===== Lookup Manager: Finding Duplicates =====

While it is possible to scan through a category manually to find duplicate items, it is much easier to use the Lookup Manager **Find Duplicates** utility.

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==== Finding a Duplicate ====

To perform a search, select the required Category from the **Category** drop-down pick-list then select the first item in the list to mark where you want the search to start.

Next, select the **[Find]** toolbar icon from the **[Tools]** toolbar tab. The Lookup Manager will scan down from the currently selected location in the list and stop when it has successfully highlighted a duplication, or report that no duplicates have been found.

==== Dealing with Duplicates ====

The most basic way of dealing with duplicates is to manually merge them together. Once the list has highlighted a set of duplicates, click the **[Merge]** toolbar icon to perform the merge process to remove the duplicates and leave only a single copy in its place.

A far more convenient process however, is to turn on one or more of the **Duplicate** related preferences in the
**[Options]** toolbar tab:

  * **[Auto-Merge]** - When two or more entries are discovered in the list, the items are selected and then merged automatically.

  * **[Repeat]** - If a merge has been performed, a new **Find** is automatically performed to find the next set of duplicates in the list.

Using these two preferences in conjunction with the **[Find]** toolbar icon allows very fast processing of even large category listings.


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