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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:03:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: <B1006096405@hdflem01.fl.hostdepot.net>


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:05:17 -0500, Gregory Winters wrote:

> You are correct about the truncation piece. That is
> indeed the box I'm working with. I guess I would like to
> know if this could get fixed because there is twice as
> much 'white space' in the window as there is text, so
> it's not being truncated because of lack of room.

As I said, what you see here is the Abbreviation field. Go to the
Master Source List, then find one of the sources in question. Double
click on in, and look at the Abbreviation field on the General tab.
Change it to whatever you want to see listed as a brief label for this
source. Keep in mind that whatever you enter is never printed -- it is
just used in the Citation screen and in the Master Source List (when
it is in "Less" mode) for you to be able to recognize the source. I
don't recall what the length limit is on this field, but you can find
it by entering a long label and seeing how much is retained when you
exit the field.
>
> I have indeed opened the Citation Detail and this is
> where I expected to find the text of the Citation (as I
> indicated in the example I sent you). However, the
> Citation Detail is blank. I *have* attached text to the
> source itself in the past, but I quit doing this because
> I was unable to figure out how to get that source text
> printed in Citation footnotes.

Have you gone to this source in the Master Source List to see if the
text is actually there, as I suggested in my previous message? I'm
trying to figure out if it's really missing or just in a place you
don't expect.

Is the data you are looking at from a direct import or by GEDCOM?

Terry



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