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From: "Wylde" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Entering / Selecting Places
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 07:12:19 +0100
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Hi Mark
Like many users I converted from UFT. Darrell is correct to warn you about
the effect of editing. However I have not had a particular problem with
this, maybe because after Genbridging across from UFT, I cleaned up my
Master Place List to make sure the entries for say Detail or City were in
the correct corresponding place for TMG. Since then I have used F2 without
any problem, but occasionally I need to think carefully about whether or not
the existing entry is exactly what I want or whether or not I need to enter
from scratch. I would also say that I find F3 very useful for repetitive
entry of the same information(in any field, e.g bringing up an existing
source). Also F3 can cycle through the last fifteen (I think) entries.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Martin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Entering / Selecting Places


> At 04:40 PM 9/1/04, Mark Scott wrote:
>
> >I am a recent convert from UFTree (yes, I know I'm behind) and am still
> >getting familiar with TMG.
> >In UFTree, while entering an event, I could enter part of a place name,
> >press CTRL-D to get a list of similar places, and then, if it was in the
> >list, select the place I wanted. The selected place would be entered
into
> >the event place field.
> >
> >TMG has a Master Place List. When entering an event, is it possible to
> >pick a place from the Master Place List and have it inserted into the
event
> >place fields?
> >=Mark Scott
>
> Hi, Mark:
>
> Yes, but be *VERY* careful. If you put the cursor in the first place field
in the Tag screen, press F2, and choose from the place list; and then, after
the place fields are filled in on the Tag screen, you edit them, you may (I
think *will*) change all Tags that had the same original field values to
agree with your edited values even if you have no intention whatever of
doing that.
>
> My solution is to use F2 **ONLY** to select a place that I am quite
certain I am going to leave **exactly** as it was. Otherwise, I enter the
data in each field from scratch. (If I thought I could select from the list,
but there is even the most minor of discrepancies, I cancel the selection
and return to the Tag.)
>
> TMG uses a most unusual way of storing place information, and that is the
cause of this behavior. The Master Place List is not, in the "raw data",
what it appears to be on screen. I understand how it works, but fervently
hope that an overhaul is nearing completion!
>
> Darrell M.
>
>
> Darrell A. Martin
> a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
> http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy
>
>
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