This is a great shortcut which lets you add items to your collection with a single keystroke. If your collection is largely in NM condition, and you’ve organized it physcally by title, this is likely the fastest possible way to enter your collection. All you need to do to enter whole runs at once is to go to the title in ComicBase, highlight the items you own, then press a single key to indicate how many of each copy you have.
Using One-Key Quantity Entry
- Select one or more items from the Album View (by clicking the items) or Grid View (by clicking in the Row Selection column at the far-left of the grid).
Selection tips: Shift-clicking or Ctrl-clicking allows you to select continuous or discontinuous ranges, respectively; Edit > Select All (Ctrl-A) will select all visible items. - Press a number key from 0 to 9 to set that number as the quantity in stock for all the selected items, or…
- Press the + or – keys to add or subtract from the quantity in stock for each of the selected items
Bonus Tip
You can use one-key quantity entry in combination with Quick Change to first enter the quantity of each item, then bring up Quick Change (Ctrl-G) to change values for other fields of interest (such as the items’ conditions, or setting the cost of each item)