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5-18 Creating and Editing Methods
Editing or Deleting Methods
Introduction
After you create a method, you can edit its parameters, and store the method by the
same name, or change its name. At some time, you may also want to delete a method
if you are no longer using it. You can access all editing functions from the Main menu.
The delete screen is accessed through the utility menu.
Editing a Method
The following procedure describes how to edit a method.
To edit a method:
Step Action
1 From the
Main
menu, press
Edit
.
Note If an (SRAM) PC Card is detected in the Card slot, you will get a choice of
editing a method on the PC Card or the instrument.
The top line of the display continuously cycles between the following three lines:
Methods on Inst User Size Stored [or Last Used]
[or on PC card]
Used Mem: xxx methods xxx segments
Free Mem: xxx methods xxx segments
The following table describes these fields.
2 Select one of the methods displayed on the screen, or select another method as
follows:
Field Description
units for the Size field Based on a calculation of the complexity and length
of a method relative to a maximum size of 1102 size
segments for the storage capacity of the instrument.
Used Mem field Displays the number of segments used by all stored
methods.
Free Mem field Displays the number of segments available to store
created methods.
If you want to... Then press...
view the parameters of a method before making a selection
(Refer to “Viewing Method Parameters” on page 4-4.)
the View key.
search for a method by user name
(Refer to “Searching for Methods” on page 4-4.)
the
User
key.
sort methods by different criteria
(Refer to “Sorting Methods” on page 4-5.)
the Sort key.