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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Entering / Selecting Places
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:39:46 -0400
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Kith-n-Kin wrote:
>May I get some clarification? Please help me out on this:
>
>I have a series of people that I am adding, say, a residence for, with
>different dates.
>I make a residence tag for one person.
>
>I make a residence tag for person "B", put the cursor in the "Addressee"
>field, key in "F2", which generates a current place list. Then, I begin
>typing the first few letters of the place (regardless of the first field),
>select the appropriate place, enter and out. (I just tried this and it worked).
>
>BUT, is there a quicker way? - say another hot key combination, to put the
>cursor in the "addressee" field, hit the hot key, and have all the fields
>filled out with the immediately previous entries? Something like Ctrl F3,
>gives you the last fifteen entries?

There are three hot keys that relate to what you are doing. [F2] lets you
select a field and choose a place record which will fill in all subsequent
fields of the place data just as the data displays in the MPL listing.

[F3] allows you to select the last entry made into that one field. Each
subsequent time that [F3] is pressed (for this same field) the next
previous unique entry for this field is placed in the currently opened Tag
field where your cursor is located. This continual pressing of the [F2]
key well give you the next prior entry up to fifteen entries and then start
over again with the first entry.

Control + [F3] is similar to [F2] except the entire table of fifteen
entries for the current field is displayed in a list and you may select the
entry you wish.

But the only hot key that fills in multiple fields is the [F2] key. So,
no, there is not another hot key as you ask.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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