On 1/23/2018 5:11 PM, LYLE HERMANCE wrote: > Thanks for your prompt replies. Do I understand that the "obit tag" will only appear once in the journal report. If so when does it appear, the first time the person's name appears or the second time? > > I have hundreds of obit information in the "memo" of the death tag. > > I would like to keep the obit as written. Some of the obits are very interesting and helpful in understanding more about the person. > > The only way I thought possible was to save as a Word document and then remove the unwanted memo in the death tag. That would take a tremendous amount of time. > Lyle, I agree with those that say you would be better off putting the obits in a separate Tag Type so you can better control it. But you do have some options for how the data in Tags is presented that do not require you to move them to separate Tags. Look at the Tags tab of the Report Options for the Journal and you can see how it works. The left side of that tab controls which Tag Types appear for everyone in their own section of the report. There are separate options on the right for the listing of children when they appear under their parents. Children who have children of their own, and thus appear in their own sections are treated differently than children who do not have their own sections. The top option "Applies to" controls whether abbreviated listings (more on that next) are used only for children with their own section, or for all children. If you set it to "Only children that are carried forward" only those children will get the abbreviated listing. Children who do not have their own section will get all the Tags specified on the left side of the tab. If you chose "All children" all the children, regardless of whether or not they also appear in their own sections will have only the abbreviated listing. What Tag Types are included for children who receive the abbreviated listing? That's controlled by the middle section on the right, "Include Only." You can choose any or all, or none, of the Tag Types Birth, Marriage and Divorce, Death, and Burial. The third set of options -- "Format" -- in that group controls how the information in the Tag Types you specified will be displayed. There are three choices. The first, "He was born in 1861,"  uses the Sentences to produce the output - that is they get the same output, but only for these four Tag Types, as will appear in their own section. That's the issue you are having because you put the obit information in the Death Tag. The second two options -- "born 1861" and "b. 1861" -- do not use Sentences but use abbreviated output from the date and place fields. The Memo will not be included. So, one option is to choose one of these last two options. When you do the obit will not appear with the child in the list of children for his or her parents. If you do move the obit text to it's own Tag Type it will appear only if you specify that it be include on the left side of the Tags tab of Report Options, and only in a person's own section. Exception - for children who do not have their own section it will appear under their parents if you choose "Only children who are carried forward." Terry Reigel