I wholeheartedly endorse the suggestion that the standard COMMENT text should be pasted with Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V, but suggest the following, which works a little better in my experience (replacing "spouse" with "mother's" as appropriate): COMMENT(2) Entry reads or for spouse name Note(1): there is no #. I have found that WinBMD gets its line numbers confused if a # is pasted rather typed so I always type the # and paste the rest. Note(2): names are blank with 2 spaces so that the cursor only needs to be put in the correct place for typing - no need for deletions. Phil

Phil, Would you please email me asap offlist and explain this problem with line numbering. I'm not aware of any such problem and I can't reproduce it but I'd like to fix it. When does it happen? Which line numbering option are you using when it happens? Thanks Ian -----Original Message----- From: Phil Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 3:41 PM To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Tip of the Day (No. 6) (last updated 01 April 2012) - AlternativeSpouse or Mother's Names in Marriage or Birth Records I wholeheartedly endorse the suggestion that the standard COMMENT text should be pasted with Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V, but suggest the following, which works a little better in my experience (replacing "spouse" with "mother's" as appropriate): COMMENT(2) Entry reads or for spouse name Note(1): there is no #. I have found that WinBMD gets its line numbers confused if a # is pasted rather typed so I always type the # and paste the rest. Note(2): names are blank with 2 spaces so that the cursor only needs to be put in the correct place for typing - no need for deletions. Phil FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message