Thanks, a very nice feature and I figured out how to change the 'from' to a 'to' for both individual and couple events. However I couldn't get it to include the free format with %F. How does one include free format and miscelaneous entries? Why is the {from} and {to} enclosed in the shift brackets? Mike At 08:17 14/05/01 -0500, you wrote: OR you can go to >Option Menu - Standard Event Editor to change the way these events are worded. > >Ira

At 02:49 PM 5/14/01 +0000, you wrote: >Thanks, a very nice feature and I figured out how to change the 'from' to >a 'to' for both individual and couple events. >However I couldn't get it to include the free format with %F. > >How does one include free format and miscelaneous entries? %M is for MiscData field. The free format field simply gets added as part of the data field automatically. You don't specify it in the sentence construction. But in the Option Menu -> Story Options there is a place where you can specify whether to show the free format date before or after date and with or without parenthesis around it. >Why is the {from} and {to} enclosed in the shift brackets? Notice the structure p{to} - this indicates that if there is no place name then do not include what is in the brackets. Thus you can specify certain words to be suppressed if the data piece is missing. For Misc Data it is m{some words here} this will cause the words inside the brackets to be suppressed if the Misc Data is not present. Full explanation of all this on page 154-157 of the PDF manual. Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043