Hi Gail,
Thank you for your kind words - but on this I have no idea how it
works ;-) - just that it's there.
I do have 3 or 4 US locations in my database but never use empty
commas in my locations and have never felt bound by the 4 field US
entry style - except for US locations. :-) I enter all locations
consistently from smallest unit to country and then sort locations
right to left. My locations are mainly in England, Scotland and
Australia. I don't use UK or GB for locations in England and Scotland
as what the whole unit was called seems such a moveable feast so use
England etc as the country. I've mostly given up on abbreviations in
locations as my family don't know what they mean. I need to rethink
how I use the short location. Currently I'm not using it.
I do know this expand/contract feature was in the last build of 5 but
I don't know how long it's been around.
Cheers,
Cathy
At 22:51 23/09/2005, you wrote:
Wow, I guess I haven't looked at all the v6 goodies yet! Thanks for
pointing this feature out. I just tried it out by tagging two
example locations as they are in my system now:
Current Long: , Early County, Georgia, USA
Current Long: , Elbert County, Georgia, USA
Current Short: Early County, Georgia
Current Short: Early County, Georgia
In the expand/contract options screen I clicked the following
options: "Contract Short Location Names," "USA State Names," and
"Only tagged locations," but the short names did not change.
Then I edited the short locations so that they looked exactly like
the long names (i.e. added back the leading comma and the USA at the
end). This time, I got the state abbreviation in the short name,
but I am left with that leading pesky leading comma. It seems that
it will only abbreviate the state when the state is in the expected
3rd position.
Am I missing something again? Cathy thanks for all the help you
give the users on this list! I always look forward to your notes.
Gail
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