Phil   Note(1): I'll wait for Ian to advise if adding the # before the COMMENT is causing problems before I amend the information in my Tip of the Day.   From my own experience I can't readily see a problem, the same effect happens if ether I CTRL-C for example   #COMMENT(2) entry reads name1 or name2 Bradley for spouse name   and then CTRL-V to paste in WinBMD   or if I physically transcribe #COMMENT(2) entry reads name1 or name2 Bradley for spouse name.   Note(2):  My approach to amending name1 or name2 to reflect the actual names is simply to highlight name1 and over-type by the actual name and the same for name2. There is therefore no need to do any deletion since the name1 or name2 are just overwritten.   Allan Raymond From: Ian Brooke <ianbrooke@hotmail.com> >To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com >Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012, 3:53 >Subject: Re: Tip of the Day (No. 6) (last updated 01 April 2012) - AlternativeSpouse or Mother's Names in Marriage or Birth Records > > >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 > >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