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From: "Kathryn Bassett" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] "contains" issue
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:33:52 -0700
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Going back to the original place that I want contains equals "MA " is in the
filter for tasks, so what NGS recommends is moot. I use keywords for one
thing and memo/comments for another. The memo in tasks is actually called
comments, but when you filter it's called a memo. When making my "report"
for the list of tasks, I am sorting by the keyword and filtering for the
item in the comments/memo. I use the 2 digit postal abbreviation so that I
don't end up mis-spelling things like Massachusetts. I do NOT want to go
through all the extra work of using TMGU to change words and change them
back etc. I need to do these reports on the fly for viewing on screen, not
printing out. And MA is just an example. Though Teresa's example is not one
that would be a practical one, it does point out the problem - that we need
to be able to search on "whole words" - case sensitive would also be good.

--
Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"

http://bassett.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Teresa Elliott
> Sent: 31 Aug 2008 5:00 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] "contains" issue
>
> Barbara,
> Not really, what if the issue was she wanted to check for the
> word "in" but
> didn't want to find the words "instead", "inside", "into"...
>
> Teresa Ghee Elliott
> --http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/
> My genealogy blog
> --http://generationsgoneby.wordpress.com/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf
> Of Barbara de Mare
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 5:56 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] "contains" issue
>
> The whole problem would be mostly avoided if instead of using
> the postal
> abbreviations, you used the proper state abbreviations (i.e.
> "Mass.") as
> recommended by NGS.

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