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While working with Alpha Five, you can change data at any time by simply navigating to a record and typing in new values. This method is fine if you are just working with a few records, but editing can become enormously time-consuming if you are working with hundreds or thousands of records. To handle larger data manipulation tasks, you can use an Alpha Five Operation. "Operation" is a general term for a process which changes data in existing tables, or even creates new tables as Part of the operation.

Some typical operations include: Change all field values to uppercase or lowercase, summarize or cross-tabulate records in a table, mark or delete duplicate or out-of-date records, add records from one table to another table, import or export spreadsheets or text files, post values from one table to another, and update the field values in all, or a subset of records.

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