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From: "Laura M. Cooper" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Old Style date entry
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:00:03 -0500
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Thanks Terry. Yours is a much more efficient work-around than mine.

I do understand that most people would rather the dates be converted. I
suppose it's entering all those dates from early New England town records
that has finally gotten to me <g>. I do think, however, that entering a
date followed by OS should convert to the correct double date. That it
doesn't, I find curious.

Laura Cooper

At 11:40 PM 9/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>"Laura M. Cooper" wrote:
>
> > Frankly, I would prefer that TMG not mess with my dates so that I could
> > enter them as they appear in the original documents, or how I want them to
> > appear. Other than OS dates, I find it particularly frustrating that dates
> > written, for example, 4. 10. 1677., are automatically converted.
>
>Most of the time, most people want the dates converted. If they weren't
>TMG couldn't
>calculate ages, which many people find helpful.
>
>But occasionally, I agree it is better to keep the dates as oringinally
>entered. To do that,
>all you need to do is include some text in the date field that is not
>recognized by TMG as
>part of a date. One way is to enclose it in quotes, which has the
>advantage of indicating in
>the output that it is a direct quote. Our you might include a phase such
>as "recorded as" or
>something like that. If the date as recorded includes a space, you can use
>the "printer
>code" for non-breaking space ( [:NB:] ) instead of a regular space, and
>the change will be
>invisible in the output.
>
>One way to do this with any date that's invisible in reports is to enclose
>the date in the
>Font code for Dates -- with your example it would be [FONTD:]4. 10.
>1677[:FONTD]. This code
>causes the date to be output in the font style you specify for dates,
>which of course it
>would be anyway. But the code causes the date to be recorded as irregular.
>(Part of the code
>may be visible on screen, depending on the width you set for the date column.)
>
>Font codes are not on the right click menu for dates (I suppose because it
>makes them
>irregular), but you can type them in. Or, if remembering them is a
>problem, type the date
>into the Memo field, apply the codes with the right-click menu, and then
>use cut (Ctrl-X)
>and paste (Ctrl-V) to move them to the date field.
>
>Terry Reigel
>
>
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