I approach this question from a different direction. Newspaper items are not facts, they are sources that contain facts. I create fact names based on the information in the article (if necessary), then use the newspaper article as the source. For example I have an article announcing that my grandmother was named salutatorian of her HS graduating class. I created a fact name called Honors, entered the date, place and put the type of honor in the description. Then I used the newspaper article as the source. Another article tells that my great-grandmother was elected president of the ladies auxiliary of the Grange. I made a fact name Leadership. Many fact names can be extracted from a wedding notice: name of church, name of officiant, names of witnesses, etc. all with the article as the single source. In the case of my grandmother above, if I had more than one honor to record for her, we would be back to your original question with two facts named Honors. But you still would have greatly reduced the number of instances of this problem, and would be using the database in a way that could prove to be more productive for you in the end, particularly if you wish to print a bibliography. Where you do end up with multiple uses of a fact name, you could make some of your alternate facts private. Then when you create your report you can exclude private facts and use the Facts to Include dialog box to create exactly the report you want. Judy in Ocala -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of TH Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 10:41 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: [FTM-TECH] Preferred Facts Is there a way to make more than one fact with the same Fact Name preferred? I have added a new Fact called Newspaper Item. I often have more than one newspaper item as a Fact for an individual. It would be nice to designate this new Fact as "Preferred" each time I use it for an individual when creating and printing reports. I know that I can opt NOT to use only preferred facts, but that option forces me to display all the alternates for a particular fact. Tom Herson Ithaca, NY ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Online Support for Family Tree Maker Version 16 and earlier http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ Version 2008 - 2011 http://ftm.custhelp.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message