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From: Richard Cleaveland <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] v5.15 list of names to EXCEL or WORD
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:00:05 -0400
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20040730220021.00ba5d90@mail.richard.cleaveland.name>
In-Reply-To: <000401c47707$e5bcf960$6602a8c0@Cheasa>

At 10:08 AM 7/31/2004, Teresa Ghee Elliott wrote:
>While you can't do that yourself, you can edit the language files to have
>PRINT AND SAVE read however you want.

Agreed, Teresa, but a person able to do that editing is not the person
that's confused by the terminology - the beginning user. And there are
occasions when "print" is the correct term.

Dick

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Cleaveland [mailto:]
>Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 9:12 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [TMG] v5.15 list of names to EXCEL or WORD
>
>It should be possible to change the caption of a command button on a form
>in response to another setting. So it would seem reasonable to have it say
>"Print and save" when the radio button for "printer" is selected, "Display
>and save" when "screen" is selected and "Write to file and save" when
>"file" is selected. The area of the form would more properly be labeled
>"Output" or Send report to" rather than "Print to".
>
>At least this kind of command button captioning change is possible in
>Access with just one line of code per button, so presumably it must be
>possible in FoxPro. Perhaps that would be the "better solution."
>
>I would further suggest that the button use the term "save the format"
>rather than just "save" to remove another area of confusion I have seen
>mentioned on the list.
>
>Dick
>
>At 09:10 PM 7/30/2004, Paul E. Lawrence wrote:
> >Not to belabor the point but this is something that has received a lot of
> >discussion and no one has come up with a better solution. In TMG4 the
> >button was Generate and users complained about it. In TMG5 the section is
> >headed "Print to:" with the selections being Screen, File, and Printer.
> >Therefore "Print and Save" seems to be the best solution considering that
> >there is limited space on the button....just my opinion.....
> >
> >
> >At 05:56 PM 7/30/2004 -0700, Barbara Heard wrote:
> >> Yep, the report definition screen is set up as you said, but I didn't
> >>want to print, I wanted to send the data to another program, so I didn't
> >>look at the print radio button.
> >
> >Paul E. Lawrence
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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