Hi Claire,

You can enter From - to dates without the to bit

From 1971

I don't think you can solve your other dilemma without using the sentence override. The living/dead formatting doesn't work if you've entered several occupations or, as you say, the person has retired.

Cathy

At 08:12 AM 24/05/2008, you wrote:
I’ve been trying to format the “occupation” event sentence. I thought it would be great to use the living/dead formatting since I was having trouble with my “living” entries showing “worked” when they were actually still working. As usual, I ran into a snag. Now it reads that people who are still living, but retired, are still working. Does anyone have a format that works?

Also - What would be the correct way of entering the date of an event that is ongoing? Such as, since 1971 he has worked as a …

Claire




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