I accidentally added a character, and can’t find a way to delete it.
In the character list on the left, it is greyed out, and says “New CHARACTERS”. Nothing appears in the Inspector Panel.
I’ve searched the Aeon Timeline Help and the Forum for this topic, and don’t find anything.
Is the character that you are wanting to delete greyed out in the inspector list?
Are you able to post a screenshot of what this looks like?
Are you still able to edit other parts of the file? (Eg. delete events etc.)
Sorry to be late in replying to your interest. Life intervened. Yes it is greyed out (sometimes there are two), and I found that while I can’t delete them, I can simply enter an event or whatever and it will take it’s place above in the active list. It confused me because I thought I had to hit the + sign above to get a new event, etc. Didn’t know they were down there waiting, and not sure why there’s this duplication.
PS: I have been using Groups in Characters, and now I see greyed out “New Characters” in the middle of the list within a Group, between two Groups, or as a sub-character of a character. I can’t move them and can’t delete them.
Hi JHH,
Fellow user here. Grain of salt. All that.
For any data item type, you can’t delete those greyed-out lines because they’re an option available to you for creating a new data item (of whatever type panel you’re on). This is in addition to the + Create dropdown, which is limited to the data types relevant to the panel you’re on, or the plus mark to the left, which offers every data item type available. So many options! 
The greyed-out lines can be at different levels, as in your screenshot, if the item can be nested within itself (e.g., story within a story, character group within a character group, etc.) or within a parent (more below) so that you have the option to input new child items at any level within that structure.
Items with parent types will also show the parent types in the listing, e.g., character groups are in the characters panel along with the characters themselves. You can create a new character within a group (greyed-out lines within groups) or outside of any group (very bottom greyed-out line).
Hope this helps. :0)
Thanks for the info and useful graphic! Really good of you to take the time to do that.
Personal opinion here: I find the “New Character” thing intrusive – they clutter things up. I wish they really were an option, and I could opt out of having them. Clicking on the plus sign worked just fine for me.
