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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] getting rid of the 2 in ID 2:30
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:35:40 -0500
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Paul E. Lawrence wrote:
>At 04:47 PM 11/2/2005 -0500, David S. Flower wrote:
>>I have an old Project that must have been a result of a merge from two
>>sources.
>>
>>All of the people have an ID that begins with 2: and I'd like to clean it
>>up so every one has an ID without the 2: in it.
>
>The 2: indicates the data set number. If you have no data set 1: you can
>renumber 2: to 1: and then the number in front of the colon will not show.
>Go to File>Data Set Manager...if only the one data set is listed then
>select it and click on Renumber and change the number to 1.....

On the other hand, if you do have two (or more) data sets, you can merge
them together. This results in one data set (#1 ?) having its original
data plus the data from the other (#2 ?) data set. The second (merged)
data set (#2 ?) will remain unchanged and can then be deleted if you wish
or you can simply Disable it (in the Data Set Manager).

If this is a bit confusing, you might read Terry Reigel's article on
projects and data sets as posted on his web site
<http://tmg.reigelridge.com/projects-datasets.htm>;.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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