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From: "Chuck Wolfram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Newbie Questions - again
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 05:39:12 -0400


See below:
>
>Kith-n-Kin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
Of course, don't forget that [F3] will give you the last several (I think the last 15) places you entered, in reverse order. Just keep clicking. Of course, if you haven't entered the address recently, or you've run external repair, you need to use [F2].

Chuck


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