Do one of the following to delete a tier:
Use the mouse.
Use the Tier menu.
Click on
menu.Go to
A dialog window appears.The labels of all available tiers are displayed a pull down box, e.g.:
Click on the tier that you want to delete. A warning dialog appears asking you to confirm the deletion., e.g.:
Click
to delete the tier and all its child tiers; click to not delete them.![]() | Note |
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If you delete a tier, you will lose all its annotations. If you delete a parent tier, all its child tiers will be automatically deleted as well. Please make sure that you do not accidentally delete a child tier. |
To delete a parent tier without deleting its child tiers, you have to assign the child tier to another parent or make it an independent tier. Afterwards you can safely remove the parent tier. For instructions on how to change a tier’s parent, see Section 5.4.7.