Oh, THANKS, Lee! You've just given me a way to procrastinate even more about converting data copied into text files into properly configured tags!<g> I expect I'll take this "lazy way" and simply make tags that refer to these text files until I get around to making the tags act like they should. (And seriously, this seems a real improvement over having bits of data here and there in text files.) Rick Van Dusen On 8/10/2015 7:46 PM, Lee Hoffman/KY via wrote: > Some years ago, way back on TMG v4x and earlier, I often had text > files that I had created about various persons that I researched. In > order to speed up some of my data entry, I decided to include them in > my TMG data set as they were with the intention of editing my data > into TMG Tags or in some other way later. : : : It is a nice > feature and saves re-typing, or copy/pasting and still works in TMG > v9x today. I doubt that many users know about it, so thought I'd mention it . > > To reference and external file in a TMG Tag, go to the Tag Memo and > type in the File Path and File Name for the file -- preceded by an > exclamation mark (!). For example, if the file name is Davis > History.txt, and you have placed it in a folder named TextFiles in > your TMG User Data Files folder, then you would enter the following > in the Tag Memo field: > "!C:\Users\username\My Documents\The Master Genealogist > v9\TextFiles\Davis History.txt" > (omitting the quotes). : : : > It is a nice feature. Try it, you may find it helpful. > > Lee