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From: "Karenhappuch" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Omissions
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:52:11 -0700
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Lee,
The question concerned inclusion of excluded places, not inclusion of all
excluded data. Places are excluded with the simple "-" simply to make the
narrative flow better. A user may want some of those places to appear in
non-narrative reports, but would not want other excluded data to appear.
Barbara


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Omissions


> Lynn Rudberg wrote:
>>Perhaps my hopes are unrealistic but here goes: When I input data and
>>then look at the individual narrative or journal reports, I often find I
>>need to place the omission sign (-) at the county or state level element
>>so that the narrative is not redundant and is more readable.
>
> This is called the Exclusion Marker. It is used, as you explain, to
> exclude certain data from report. The single dash means that you may
> control when the data is printed (e.g., not excluded) or not printed
> (e.g., excluded) in the various reports. If you have entered data into a
> field and _never_ want it printed, then you would use the Double Exclusion
> Marker (two dashes, e.g., '--' instead of just one, e.g., '-').
>
>>However, that means that the pedigree charts (and I suspect the box charts
>>too) have incomplete data regarding places. Is there a way to work around
>>this or must I deal with each narrative report by deleting the redundant
>>place elements in Word?
>
> In the Report Definition, if you want data marked with the Exclusion
> Marker to print, select the [Options] button, and in the Options window,
> click on the Miscellaneous or Other tab and select the "Show excluded
> data" option.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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