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From: Barbara de Mare <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] General sentence question
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:26:30 -0800 (PST)
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That was the answer I wanted to hear, as that is what it seemed to me. I couldn't, however, figure out why some people are so caught up in making perfect fit-all global sentences, so thought I must be missing things. It seems to me it is easier to fix the sentences as I go along than wait until I am printing a report and then have to fix the whole thing in Word.


Barbara L. de Mare, Esq.
Attorney, historian, genealogist, grandmother
155 Polifly Road
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601

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From: Lee Hoffman <>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:24:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] General sentence question

Barbara de Mare wrote:
>I frequently see questions on this list about how to make a sentence
>work for all situations. I am afraid I don't understand the
>problem, so am probably doing something wrong. When I need
>something different, I just do a local modification of the sentence
>to work for what I have. I also use the Memo field a lot to add
>additional notes, rather than expecting the global sentence to do
>it. What is wrong with this system?

First, getting a Sentence Structure to work for all situations is
probably an impossibility as something will always come up that is
just off. Second, even if such could be done, it would likely
produce a log of redundancy in reports. I use the default Global
Sentences often, but as I start printing reports about a person, I
start editing the Tag Sentences so that many are no longer the
default or Global Sentence but Local Sentences. In this way, my
reports are a lot less "canned".

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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