Managing a multi-volume set

Hi there, my apologies if this is the wrong group to post. I'm new to LT after over a decade of tracking this collection in an excel document. I have a multi-volume set which showed up under the search with all four volumes as a single entry. In this collection, I want to list each individual volume as a separate entry and connect them as a series. I did not find this option in searching under other copies and editions of the entry I had found before, so I tried to enter in the information manually. However, that connected my manual-entry book back to that entry! When I double-click the "series" space for that volume, it warns me that editing that space will change information for all LT users.

I don't want to mess up anything for other users of the site, but I really need these books connected as a series! Is there a way to disconnect my manual entry from the global entry, or to set the series only for my specific copy/edition of the entry, or some other solution? Please help!

Thank you so much.

Yes there is! You can separate your copies on the edition page of the work (lefthand menu on a desktop computer), and then add them to a new series, and add the 4 volume set to the series as a collection. Labeling them clearly and creating the series should prevent them being joined again.

LT tends to initially join things with similar titles - especially if the title is the same before a colon; you didn't do anything wrong.

To prevent things being wrongly combined later you should add 'Work Relationship' for each of the individual works. This is on the main work page along with series.

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Thank you both so much for your replies and assistance! With your help I have solved this issue (: