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From: Richard Cleaveland <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Clear reference field?
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:38:13 -0500
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No, I just created a null. Perhaps a space would have worked, but it
probably would have sorted ahead of anything else anyway.

Dick

LadyBonita (USA) wrote:
> Did you try just putting a 'space' in the field? For some reason I thought
> there was an option to delete all ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Cleaveland [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:57 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Clear reference field?
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> Attempts to get John's utility to set the reference fields to blank or
> null failed. However, I achieved my end objective by letting his utility
> set the reference fields to codes - all starting with alphanumeric
> characters. You see, my ultimate objective was to use the reference
> field sort to manage the sequence of the Journal report. By selecting
> major surnames and setting their endline reference fields to 1,2,3 and
> so forth, and using the reference field sort, I get the ancestor lines
> printed after each name to follow those surnames, instead of having a
> mixed bag of lines.
>
> Dick
>
> Teresa Elliott wrote:
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>>The utility will set it to X by using a file. You might could use it to
>
> set
>
>>it to nothing. But resetting each person might be faster than creating
>
> the
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>>text file.
>>Teresa
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Cleaveland [mailto:]
>>Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 11:27 AM
>>To:
>>Subject: [TMG] Clear reference field?
>>
>>Is there a way to clear the reference field en masse? I checked out the
>>utility and the lop report and didn't detect any.
>>
>>Dick
>>
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