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From: "Kith-n-Kin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Newbie Questions - again
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:02:32 -0700
In-Reply-To: <3EDA74BC.85FA14B3@infoave.net>


Yea Richard, Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Brogger [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 14:49
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Newbie Questions - again


Hi Pat,

Comments added below.

Kith-n-Kin wrote:
>
> OK, I've been trying out all the good advice this week - between bouts of flu, so here are my "new
> questions".
>
> 1. Is there a way to 'batch' update 'married names'. Except for myself and a few others, every
> married female in the DB needs a married name. I thought it easier to batch it and change back a few
than
> to wait until I had "visited" every female and had the prompt for creating a married name crop up. And,
> no, I didn't take that option upon import. And, I don't want to re-import because I've done so much
> clean-up already.

I think that the easy way to 'batch' update 'married names' is with
John Cardinal's Utility5.

> 2. In an "event" list, upon edit, there are "drop-downs" next to each field. At first I thought
that
> they would be populated with all previous entries in that field, for example, under County: "Cumberland
> Co.", "Henrico Co.". It has come to me that that "drop down" is for selecting the "field name aliases",
> e.g., "county", "parish". Guess that was the discussion last week, so I can go back and work on that
> later. But NOW, is there a way to "pick list" the locations, and other pertinent information? Seems to
> me that consistency would be enhanced. I recall in FTM that there was an auto-complete that did part of
> that for you.

When you are in a Place field, press [F2], accept the popup and you
will get a 'picklist' of places. Double click on a entry and the
fields will be populated. Which fields are populated will depend on
your starting point. If you are in the County field when you press
[F2], you will get county and the fields that follow. If you are in
the City field when you press [F2], you will get city and the fields
that follow.

Richard Brogger


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