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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Person Name disappeared from expanded picklist
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:05:06 -0500
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At 09:05 PM 9/8/2006, wrote:
>Carol Judge wrote:
>>My thanks to John and John for suggesting to move the cursor to the left
>side of the person name box to see if it turns to a double-ended arrow. It
>sounded like a logical suggestion that I had not thought of. Unfortunately, it
>didn't solve the problem. The only double-ended arrow I >get is to resize
>the window. Any other suggestions?
>====================
>
>With TMG closed, look in the main tmg folder for the the app.ini file and
>open it in in Notepad (NOT in a word processor) and check the settings for
>[Picklist]. See if any of the 'Less1=' and 'More1=' settings are very small.
>For example, my Less1=194 . If, in TMG, I drag the Person column (Column
>mode, Expanded Picklst) to the left to make it smaller, that changes, in my
>case, to Less1=66 in the app.ini. So Less=1 may be the width setting to look
>for. If the setting is really small, change it there and save the change.
>
>Do not open or edit the app.ini file when TMG is open!
>
>Virginia B.

Hi, Virginia:

I think my suggestion refers to settings that affect the simple picklist, and on rereading her question I see Carol is using the expanded picklist. You are probably right about which setting to change. I would still recommend my "paranoid" method of creating a copy of the file first [grin].

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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