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Configuring Messages
16.6 Translating and Editing Text Libraries
Programming with STEP 7
Manual, 05/2010, A5E02789666-01 369
16.6.3 How to Edit User Text Libraries
To edit existing user text libraries, proceed as follows:
1. In SIMATIC Manager, select the program or the subordinate object within the program whose
text library you want to edit and then select the menu command Options > Text Libraries >
User Text Library.
2. Select the text library you want to open from the "Available Text Libraries" dialog box.
3. Edit the displayed texts. There are various editing functions available (such as Find and
Replace).
You can enter your own texts. You can always change the index that is automatically
generated for the texts. If you should happen enter a previously assigned index, its value is
highlighted in red.
To insert a new row, select the menu command Insert > New Row or click on the
corresponding toolbar icon.
4. If you require a hardcopy, print the texts.
5. Close the user text library after you have completed all tasks.
6. Close the application after you have edited all texts required.
Caution
When you copy a message-type block that contains a cross-reference to a text library into another
program, you must include the corresponding text libraries, or create a new text library of the same
name or edit the cross-reference in the message text.
When you change the name of an existing text library, you will render the associated values
cross-referenced to this text library invalid in already configured messages!
16.6.4 System Text Libraries
System text libraries are automatically created when blocks are generated, e.g. in "Report System
Errors". The user can not create system text libraries and can only edit existing text libraries.
All messages available for this CPU can contain a cross-reference to a text library