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From: "Laurie Williams" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] "Permanent" Sort Date
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:22:51 -0400
References: <c1a.1a2c7d.320223f6@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <c1a.1a2c7d.320223f6@aol.com>


Thanks, Virginia, that's an idea to cinsider. I keep reminding myself to
look into the text macros, but haven't yet. I was hoping that I could preset
the date for the particular tag type so it's already input when I click my
custom button to add that tag. But I imagine that's too much to hope for.

Thanks, too, to Lee for his response.

On 8/2/06, <> wrote:
>
> Laurie wrote:
> >There are several tags I want sorted in a particular order at the bottom
> of
> the tag box on person view. I do not want a "real" date. These "events"
> are
> mainly the different reference numbers I use for the various family lines
> within my one data set project, but also include some Name-Var tags. They
> will only be printed when I have a specific need for them, not in a
> general
> Individual Narrative or Journal report, probably just "List of Events"
> reports. The particular order is so I can see at a glance which tags I
> have.
> I have a devised a sort date sequence for these tags and have been adding
> the sort date when I add the tag. I realize I can set the order
> of undated
> tags via TMG Utuility after the fact, but I would rather have a default
> sort
> date for the tag when I add it. I can't see a way to do that, other than
> copying the tag from another person and changing the ID and data for the
> new
> >person, in which case, I may as well add a new tag and enter the sort
> date.
> =====================================
>
> I assume these are fixed dates each of which goes with a
> specific tag. If
> so, you could use text macros (Tools menu) for the sort dates, one macro
> for
> each date. If the macro dates are in the same sequence (Shift F-2,
> F-3......F-12) it may not be too hard to remember the macro-tag
> association.
>
> Virginia B.
>
>
>
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