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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Sentence Structure
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:14:40 -0800
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010219145843.00a6e0f0@mail.bicnet.net>


>>I would further suggest that you create a document or text file and keep a
running log of changes you have made<<

Fantastic idea, Bob. Can't believe I didn't think of it. Thanks for sharing
before I got ambitious enough to change any of the default sentences. =D

DeAnna

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Geldart [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:15 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence Structure


At 09:45 PM 2/18/2001, Paula wrote:
>I've just started standardizing sentence structures to fit my memos. For
>some of my tags I want to completely change the sentence structure but I
>haven't figured out how to do that yet. Right now I am revising my death
>tag, so I went to ADD tag (F4), selected DEATH from the list, hit EDIT,
then
>altered the sentence structure.

A suggestion:

When changing Sentence structures, work with one single individual first.
Make the changes, preview a narrative report, adjust/refine the sentence,
run other report variations.

When you finally have the person's sentence where you think it is working
perfectly for you, highlight it, then do a copy (<Ctrl><C>), then <F4> Add
Tag, Edit, and paste (<Ctrl><V>) in the sentence field. Now you have a new
default sentence for all persons.

I would further suggest that you create a document or text file and keep a
running log of changes you have made, such as:

Death Tag:
02Feb01 - Principal: [P] died <[D]> <[L]> <[A]>
Original sentence structure
02Feb01 - Principal: [P] died <[D]> <[L]> <[A]> <[M]>
Added Memo to record cause of death

In this way you can track changes you've made and why. By Copy/Paste, you
can also use other versions to make changes or revert back to earlier
versions. You could even make a "ChangeLog" person and make the log a text
exhibit.



Bob Geldart
Maynard, MA


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