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Merge 2 lines into 1

Merge two lines into one either by dragging (as in lemmatisation) or by first marking each. Here is data from climate research from April 2011 to June 2013.

 

timeline_climate_unmerged

First mark entries which are to be merged.Then choose Joining | Join rows (F4) or simply drag one row to the target. Here I dragged weather down to climate.

 

with a result like this:

timeline_climate_merged

 

The only differences are that weather is crossed out and climate is marked as joined in the left margin.

 

What about the details of the time-lines?

Double-click on the column which lists the different search-words, to get to see the details.

 

timeline_climate_details

Here the Overall hits now show the total hits of all entries joined to climate.

Word count and other statistics cannot be merged. The reason is that in a given time-period (say period 17, August 2012) the 49 hits for climate and the 3 hits for weather in that month might or might not have been in the same set of text files dated August 2012.