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Subject: Re: [TMG] All at once Family NAME Change?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:16:33 EDT
In a message dated 10/4/2002 9:18:44 AM Central Standard Time,
writes:
> I'd like to offer a dissenting view. I would not encourage anyone to use
> the sort name feature in this way. The problem is that the name is then
> always sorted in the "wrong" place -- you cannot find it where it's
> supposed to be if you look for the actual spelling. Instead of changing
> the sort name, I suggest adding a "standard" name tag that uses the
> standardized spelling you prefer. This way, the name appears with all
> the others in the Picklist, but is also available in the picklist under
> the actual spelling of the name, so if you find it in a source you can
> look it up that way.
>
Actually, why can't you have the name sort under both? The whole point to me
of changing the sort name for a family is that the name tag I am using isn't
going to sort where I would be looking for it anyway.
Teresa Ghee Elliott
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