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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Numbering
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:29:56 -0500
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Ed Heral, Jr. wrote:
>Thank you to all that answered my question. In actuality, I did not ask
>my question properly. <sigh> But I see not what I wanted to do can't
>work. Would have to change all of the numbers individually and isn't
>worth it. Was hoping was some way to change the #1 and have all of the
>descendants fall into line. Thank you all anyway.


There are two Renumbering methods in TMG. One is the single person method
as noted by others. This is a person by person method and requires the
"new" number to be an unused one so if #1 is already used, then person #1
must first be renumbered to another number and then #1 will be unused and
can be used to renumber someone else.

The second method is a more global method. But it is really a way to
eliminate unused numbers _within_ the range of persons in your data
set. So if you have a data set with ten persons numbered like:
1, 2, 4, 12, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30

and if you select the Renumber all persons method, then the result will be
persons #1 ands #2 will remain the same while Person #4 will be renumbered
to #3, #12 to #4, #15 to #5, etc. and person #30 will be renumber to
#10. So the order of the persons is retain, but the unused numbers are
eliminated.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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