You CAN keep whatever you enter in a date field - but you lose some
of the other checking features. Simply turn off Date Checking in
Options > Customise - Dates Tab.
No problem with Gedcom export. Some programs may have problems
importing non-standard dates but I haven't seen that.
I think it's better to learn to enter dates in a standard way.
Re "between .... and" and "from ... to"
They have different uses as you point out.
For a point of time event like birth or death where you know someone
was born or died in a particular time period, "between" is the way to go.
Otherwise "from ... to" is more appropriate as you say.
Cathy
At 07:41 AM 20/10/2006, you wrote:
I gather you are talking about the separators options? I hadn't
thought about that and so I have now changed it from slash to
dash. I suppose there's a programming reason that it wouldn't work
right (perhaps in a gedcom export) if there were an option to just
keep whatever I entered?
Of course I can always put in explanatory wording, and as I've said
I've been pleased to see that the words don't interfere with the
accuracy of the sorting by date feature.
Pat
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