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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] sort by reference
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:03:55 -0500
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At 08:32 PM 8/4/2003 -0600, Stuart Armstrong wrote:
>That may be worth considering. I wish I could do that with ID numbers.
>Problem with reference numbers is that they aren't really all that useful.
>You can't go directly to a person with a certain reference number,

Yes you can, under Edit/Find Person/Search by Reference No....you can add a
button for it to the Custom Toolbar it you wish...

> you can't see the reference number next to the name of each person on
> the screen like you can ID numbers,

Yes you can, under Preferences/Program Options/General change Format of ID
to Reference field or both.....


> and you can't do many functions based on the reference number.
> Invariably you need the ID number to manage the database.

See above....


Paul E. Lawrence


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