With over three thousand author names, this could take a while. Fortunately, there are alternative methods available that we will introduce a little later. At the top of the Selection List notice that two of the items are not author names. Author item, and so there are 3488 authors in the list. These names do not actually correspond to 3488 unique people.
Alternate spellings are fairly common for names in the Author class.
If you look closely, you will see other cases of alternate spelling. We will say more about alternate names in the following pages. When the other class names in the main window are double-clicked the Selection List will show the items in that class. In general, ACeDB reuses windows to conserve the memory resources of your computer. This is discussed in more detail later.