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From: "Barbara L. Burgy" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Internal Text Exhibits
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 14:00:52 -0500

Yesterday I posted a message to the list regarding the printing of
internal text exhibits. I received two responses - my thanks to both
Dale and Lee. I wrote privately to Lee and the following is the results
which I wanted to share with everyone on the list.

Barbara Burgy of Ft. Wayne, IN

Lee Hoffman/KY wrote:
>
> Hi Barbara -
>
> You wrote:
> >Lee, the strangest thing just happened while I was experimenting with
> >internal text exhibits. As I've told you previously, I'm working with a
> >will that I made an internal text exhibit. I also created another
> >internal text exhibit as a test. Both exhibits are attached to a death
> >tag. Nothing shows up in any kind of report I try - Family Group, Indiv
> >Narrative, Rev Register. I was playing around by adding a test internal
> >text exhibit to another person. This exhibit is attached to the name.
> >The person I added it to had no previous exhibits of any kind. And the
> >person is the daughter of the man with the will. I tried a Family Group
> >Report and believe it or not, the test exhibit for the daughter showed
> >up (I'd done it as embedded). There it was right after her name. What
> >do you make of this?
>
> Curiouser and curiouser!! I think you have found a bug. I had never
> noticed this before (although I have few Exhibit that I ever want to print)
> and don't recall seeing it on TMG-L. But I seem to get the same results.
> When I add an Exhibit to the person generally (there is no provision for
> attaching an Exhibit toa Name tag), it seems to print fine. This seems to
> be the case for both Internal _and_ External Exhibits. I plan on doing
> some more testing and will inform Bob of my results.
>
> The only work-around on this that I can see is to attach Exhibits only to
> the person. The process to "move" the attachment would be to open the
> Exhibit Log from the Person View. Then for each Exhibit attached to a Tag
> (you may need to verify this by opening the Exhibit Log inside the Tag(s)),
> open the Exhibit and do a Copy/Paste to a new Exhibit that you create at
> that time. This new Exhibit will be attached to the person generally and
> not to a Tag, thus it should print properly.
>
> I would guess that Bob will fix this in TMGW v5.0, but I don't know. For
> now, you may want to check with Tech Support to see if there is some other
> work-around. I doubt there is; but there may be, including the possibility
> of going through the Back Door and changing all Tag Exhibits to Person
> Exhibits.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> ----------
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
> --------------
> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)
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