On 9/27/2015 12:11 AM, Ann Carson wrote: > Thanks very much Terry. Will use this solution until I get to SS. > > I'm preparing many draft journals at the moment for family members to check > and add to. Am thinking that I should begin using some macros to quickly > format these and edit out things like a Fake Child, before sending them to > the relevant family member. Do you use a macro or just search and replace? > > Ann, I use a Word macro for other formatting, as described in an article on my website, but I've not added this search to it. I don't find I am sending many Journals out lately, so haven't sent any that include a Fake Child. I added them to prepare text for a book I'm trying to get together, and for that I have lots of editing, so removing these manually is easy enough. But adding this to a macro shouldn't be hard to do. The hard part I think would be to figure out how to get the several lines removed at once. Terry

Hi all: I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime.  I've managed to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this great program. I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. "Repair mode has been activated." I hit "OK" The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, sample, select. etc.  All choices are available except the "last" which is grayed out. I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. Then I got this: The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. What now? Bud Dorr