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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Obits, etc.
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:48:46 -0800
References: <29.ea12265.27840fd8@aol.com>

If you wanted to use an appendix and have all of the exhibits numbered
sequentially, you could enter a tag in TMG that only contained the words
"see Exhibit *" in the memo field and with a sentence structure allowing
only for the [M] field. Then when you got into your word processor (the
following suggestion is based on MS Word--WordPerfect may have some similar
feature, I am unsure as I seldom use that program) you can do a search and
replace and have Word replace the asterisk with a sequence code. Then you
would select all of the document and do an update. This would place
sequential numbers in the spots held by the asterisks.Then if you moved
stuff around, deleted anything, added anything, then you would merely need
to re-select and do an update. This would allow for a consistent and
sequential numbering of exhibits. It would, of course, mean that you would
have to take your printed out report and match exhibit numbers with the
actual documents which you plan to put into your appendix.

One caution would be that if you added a person or a new tag that had the
"see Exhibit *" memo in it, had already numbered your documents, and then
regenerated your report to include the new person, the exhibit/document
numbers would no longer match the reference in the text. You would have to
be very sure that you were at the bitter end of the report process before
actually numbering the exhibits BUT you would still retain the flexibility
of having Word renumber the references as you updated, moved, deleted,
added, etc.

By using sequence codes you can also interlineate multiple sets of numbers
(say you wanted one set of numbers for exhibits and one for appendices or
some such, or you had multiple appendices) by merely assigning a different
name to each sequence. I have used this numerous times and it is a very
slick feature of Word that most users are unaware of. I learned how to use
it of necessity when I wanted to interlineate two different numbering
structures within the same document and our MIS people told me it couldn't
be done. Tell me something can't be done and I've got to set out to prove
it wrong!


----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Obits, etc.


> Sue asked,
>
> << I'm new to TMG. It's flexibility and power are quite impressive! I'm
> wondering how some of you enter documents such as obituaries and family
> recollections -- text documents. I'd like such items to appear in reports
> following the standard birth, death, marriage paragraph. For some of the
> more lengthy documents, I wonder if it would be more feasible to refer
the
> reader to "exhibit A," for example, in an appendix.
> >>
>
> I have created tags for Newp-Obit, Newp-Wed, Newp-Birth, Newp-Misc. You
can
> then select them for the report or leave them out. This doesn't exactly do
> what you want though. I use the Genealogy Report and that creates a 2
> paragraph report. The birth, marriage, death tags go in the first
paragraph
> and the remaining selected tags go in the 2nd paragraph. This means your
obit
> would be in the second paragraph and would not follow the death. You
could,
> of course move them in your word processor.
>
> Patt Ricketts
> Redondo Beach, CA
>

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