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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sentence Structure
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:36:00 -0500
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Bob Geldart wrote:
>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.

If this is your main dataset and not your practice dataset, be sure to go
back to the individual tag and erase the Sentence as you changed it. This
way, the newly changed default Sentence will be used. Sure they are the
same now, but if you happen to make other changes to the default Tag
Sentence, then that change will not take effect in the individual tag that
has been overridden.

>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

A good place to keep these kind of notes is in the dataset Memo field.
Select File=>Memo from the top menu of the Person View or Family View or
Tree View.

Hope this helps -

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