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# Task 6: Setting Synonyms
  In this task, you set two domain values, **USA** and **United States**, of the **Country** domain as synonyms with **United States** as the leading value. Since the **Use Leading Values** option was selected when creating the **Country** domain, any **USA** values for the **Country** domain will be output as **United States** (as United States is the leading value). See [Change Domain Values](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/hh510408.aspx) for more details.

1.  Select **Country** from the list of domains.

2.  Switch to the **Domain Values** tab.

3.  Click **Add new domain value** button on the toolbar.

4.  Type **USA** for the value and press **ENTER**.

5.  Multiselect **United States** and **USA** using CTRL or SHIFT keys, right-click the selected items, and then click **Set as Synonyms**. DQS groups these values and designate one of the values as the leading value that the other values are replaced with.

     ![Set as Synonyms Menu](../../2014/tutorials/media/et-settingsynonyms-01.jpg "Set as Synonyms Menu")

6.  Notice that **United States** is set as the leading value. If you want USA to be the leading value, you can right-click on USA and select **Set as Leading** option. For this tutorial, we use **United States** as the leading value.

     ![United States and USA as Synonyms](../../2014/tutorials/media/et-settingsynonyms-02.jpg "United States and USA as Synonyms")

## Next Step
 [Task 7: Creating a Composite Domain](../../2014/tutorials/task-7-creating-a-composite-domain.md)