Modifying Labels in Blogger Hosted Blogs

When I first started blogging I did not use post labels.  A kind reader mentioned that if I used labels it would make it easier to find related posts on that topic.  That made sense to me so I started using labels.  The problem that I immediately had is a couple of meaningless labels getting through because I would start typing the label then get distracted and in the meantime Blogger automatically saved the draft including the meaningless label.  I wasn't really worried about this as I wasn't using a label cloud so the labels were only on individual posts.  Yes, that is a poor excuse!  Anyway, it is possible to modify labels in Blogger.  You can add a new label or delete a label.  There is no easy way to simply edit a label to correct a spelling mistake but there is a work-around for this.  Here are the steps:

1. Go to your Blogger dashboard.
2. Click edit posts.  
3. On the left hand side there is a listing of your labels.  Click on the one you want to remove.  This will bring up all posts with that label.
4. Click select all to select all the posts with that label.
5. If you want to add an existing label to the highlighted posts, click on the apply label in the label drop down menu before removing the label you want to remove. 
6. If you want to add new label scroll down to new label in the label drop down menu before removing the desired label.  A small text box will appear to type in the name of the new label.  The new label will be applied to all selected posts.
7. Scroll down to remove on the label drop down menu and click on the label you want to remove.  Blogger works automatically to remove the label so wait.  You will get a confirmation that the label has been removed.
8. If you want to correct a spelling error or edit a label, click on that label then select all.  Scroll down to the apply label if a correctly spelled version already exists or new label if one does not.  Blogger will automatically apply this label to all selected posts.  Then scroll down to the remove label and click on the label you want removed.

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