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From: Allen Mellen <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG for Dummies + Merge
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 08:22:09 -0400
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Linda Lawhon wrote:
>Bonita said:
>I am in the process of merging. Sigh. Another voice of experience will
>say that there all kinds of nuances to merging. Before you delete any tag
>in the merge screen, better give it a very long consideration. :-) So --
>like Bonita, most times I just merge both screens and go to the next hit
>on the list. Now -- wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to print out
>a list of all those people you have merged???? Yep, 20/20 hindsight tells
>me I shoulda made a handwritten list but that is what computers are for --
>I think. If this list is possible, could someone tell me how to do
>it. Now I have umpty ump people that I have merged -- a good many of them
>now sitting there with duplicate tags. I can see that my faded, torn, and
>tattered edit flag is going to be once more set to *no* and once more I
>will be going through the pick list one by one. I sure do hope the merge
>thing gets better someday.
If, as you say, you just merged both screens, then you have duplicates of
all tags -- in general, one primary and one non-primary.
Stepping through the picklist, as you mentioned, is one way to find the
duplicate name tags.
A List of Names with the focus
Primary Marker is off AND
Tag type label is Name-Var
will narrow down the list. Of course it will also pick up people who
legitimately have two name tags.
The List of Events came be used to search on the other tags for non-primary
events -- again not a perfect solution.
Allen
Allen Mellen -- New York, NY
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