A Problem Using Filepro

[daN baueR]

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, Harold Faulkner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been aware of this problem for some time, but it appears worse
> now.  The problem is the Record Number when entering a new record.
>
> My Navy Reunion Group uses Filepro to list all men who served aboard our
> Destroyer, The U.S.S McCaffery DDE860 and I keep the master copy of
> Filepro, and the master list of crewmembers and officers.
>
> The problem is blank records in the list.  For some reason when we go to
> add a new member to the list, Filepro skips a record, and places the
> data on the next record.
>
> I just checked and we have 1896 records in the McCaffery file, but when
> I go to add a person, he will go on record 1898, instead of record 1897.
>
> How can I keep this from happening?  As I said earlier, this problem
> seems to be worse.
>
> Harold
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I would suggest a simple fix. Make sure at least one data field on your
data entry screen uses a % sign instead of a *. That'll force filePro to
make sure that field has something in it before you'll be allowed to save
the record. Hope that helps.

Dan





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