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From: Joe Makowiec <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tag to Flag
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 06:51:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3f.6ee8fad.2690244a@aol.com>


At 12:51 AM 7-2-2000 -0400, you wrote:
>1) It is glaringly evident to me now that my old "User Defined Field" "CID,"
>which was "converted" to a Tag and now occupies the first line of each Person
>Record, is a tremendous waste of space. Since it is a numeric field counting
>back from myself as "1, parents "2," etc., it will never exceed two digits.
>It can easily be converted to a one character code: 1....9, A, B, ....Z. (I
>have no expectation of ever finding any ancestor on the 37th generation!)
>Question: How can I move data from a Tag to a Flag?

I'll assume that the tag created was 'CID' and that the data came over in
the memo. If you were consistent in how you entered data in the field, you
can do this:
1) Create the flag CID, with values 1, 2, ... 9, A, ... up to the highest
you want.
2) Create a List of People report with focus "Any CID tag
Memo Equals 1" and secondary output Change flag CID to 1.
3) Run the report.
4) It probably would be easier to run the report from the Custom Report
Writer for this step. Open the report, edit the focus to 2, edit the
secondary output to 2, then run the report again. Do this as many times as
you need to.

>2) Find I have lots of "garbage" in many Name Fields. Seem to be able to
>correct (change) most anything but the name. How do I do it?

To edit the names, click on the 'Subject' button next to the name. If you
have a lot of stuff that needs cleaning up, you might be able to use John
Cardinal's utility, which can be found at
http://sites.netscape.net/johncardinal/TMG/default.htm

Joe
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