I have just begun transcribing and am working on typed scans of 1932 births. On several pages I note there are handwritten additions where under the page number the note says "see Dec' 34" (or some other year.) WinBMD will not allow me to type the apostrophe after the D. How to handle this, please? Thanks for your help. Yvonne

Yvonne - such references normally come in the form "See Dec/34" - are you sure it is an apostrophe rather than a "/"? - would you like me to have a look at the scan? If so, can you send me the link as provided by Lesley? If you are really sure it's an apostrophe, a number of possibilities occur to me for your transcription: a. you could type "See Dec/34" and then add a #COMMENT line saying something like "Entry for page reads See Dec'34" - it is possible that WinBMD would allow an apostrophe against a comment line! b. you could type See Dec/34 and upload it like that into the data base, and then go into Manage Your Files, open up the file, and then correct it to an apostrophe. Do you know how to get into Manage Your Files? See the following link, and follow the instructions under File Management. http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/vindex.shtml If none of that helps, do get back to me. Regards Lawrence> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:34:02 +0000> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Apostrophe> > I have just begun transcribing and am working on typed scans of 1932 > births. On several pages I note there are handwritten additions where > under the page number the note says "see Dec' 34" (or some other > year.) WinBMD will not allow me to type the apostrophe after the D. > How to handle this, please?> Thanks for your help.> Yvonne> FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins> FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Love Hotmail?  Check out the new services from Windows Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/132630768/direct/01/

Yvonne Courtine wrote on Tue, 3 Feb 2009: >I have just begun transcribing and am working on typed scans of 1932 >births. On several pages I note there are handwritten additions where >under the page number the note says "see Dec' 34" (or some other >year.) WinBMD will not allow me to type the apostrophe after the D. >How to handle this, please? Martin Cope posted a great tip for this on the list last year. Quoting Martin: > >Type a ' character in another field (e.g. forename) in WinBMD. Select the >character by dragging the mouse over it. Press [Ctrl + X] to copy and remove >the character. Place the cursor in the appropriate place in the page number >field and press [Ctrl + V] to paste the character. Hope this helps, Yvonne. -- Nowl

The easiest way is to type an apostrophe in the mother maiden name field, then cut and paste it into the page column. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yvonne Courtine Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Apostrophe I have just begun transcribing and am working on typed scans of 1932 births. On several pages I note there are handwritten additions where under the page number the note says "see Dec' 34" (or some other year.) WinBMD will not allow me to type the apostrophe after the D. How to handle this, please? Thanks for your help. Yvonne FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message