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From: "Lorna McIntosh" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Flags - multipurpose
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:40:48 +1200
In-Reply-To: <003401bfeae1$3d7ff380$0c52fea9@billjohn>


Bill,

yes, you interpreted correctly, and yes your suggestion is far better, which
is actually what I had switched too, although I grouped them into localities
rather than families.
I now have letters assigned to: Borders, Devon, Caithness, Taranaki,
Cumberland etc etc as that is what I was really trying to track/accent.

Lorna
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Johnson [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2000 12:18
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Flags - reordering wishlist
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lorna McIntosh
>
>
> >Is there any way to re-order list of flags to show the ones you
> >use most first on the screen?
> >
> >In my enthusiasm for setting accents I'd created one per family branch,
> >well most of the branches, and now when I want to add one for
> >PHOTO to keep track of which people I've what sort of photos for,
> >it appears at the bottom of the list, ie I have to scroll down to
> >see them.
> >
>
> Lorna, if I understand you correctly, you created a flag for each family
> branch. Only one flag, say 'Family' should be necessary. I have a Family
> flag, with different letters for each of the 8 grandparents for
> my wife and
> me, plus other letters that indicate some sort of connection to
> one of those
> families. Then, for accent colors, you just pick a particular
> value for the
> Family flag to give a particular accent color.
>
> Bill J.
>
>
>

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