See Master Player Files for some general tips about the use of these files.
Open or create a master player file, using either Master(Player)-Open Master List... or Master(Player)-New Master List...
If Team ID's are important to your tournaments, we would recommend that you open your Team File first, and if you need to, add any new teams to it. (See How To: Add/Edit Teams)
To add a new player, select Add a Player from the Master(Player) menu (the Master Player Window must be active). To edit an existing player, double click on the player's line in the window.
Enter the relevant information in the Add/Edit A Player dialog box. You can enter the information manually, or, you can use the USCF database to fill in some of the fields if you have it.
If you are adding players, after you click on OK, WinTD will bring up another Add/Edit a Player dialog box allowing you to add another player. When you are done adding players (after entering the last player's info and hitting OK), click on the Cancel button in the next Add a Player dialog box.
Use File-Save to save the changes to the file.
Notes:
- If a Team Window is open, you can select a team name from the list by clicking on the "From Master" button in the Add/Edit a Player dialog.
- You can also copy players from an open tournament file: Create (or go to) a tournament Players Window (see How To: Display a List of Players). From this, select the players you wish to add to your master file and drag and drop them to the Master Players Window. That is, put the mouse pointer on the selected block of players, click and hold the button, and drag the mouse until the pointer is over the Master Players Window. Release the mouse button, and WinTD will copy the players to the master file.
- You can also use the Master(Player)-Convert Data File... operation to import players from text or spreadsheet files into a Master file. See How To: Import players.
- If you need to make identical changes to a whole set of players (such as changing their team ID's or club ID's), select them and use the Edit-Change Common Info... menu operation. This will bring up the Change Common Info Dialog Box.