5.7 *report

[Bruce Easton]

I had not used the repeat first character method  - that makes it easy.  
I knew you could get to it if you could type out the letters quickly, 
but I could never type Virgini fast enough to get past Virgin Islands.

Bruce

On 12/20/13 11:59 AM, Howard wrote:
> With HTML drop downs you can type the first character of the item.
> Then repeat that character to get to the next matching item.
> (filePro does it so much better.)
>
> So - I live in Connecticut and I can just press the C key 3 times to get
> to CT.
>
> Howie
>
>
> On 12/20/2013 11:35 AM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>> Richard Kreiss propounded (on Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 05:53:58AM +0000):
>>
>> | Just want to know if this action is correct:
>> |
>> | I have a report totaling on field 9 defined as (9,,2) using =9 at the
>> | grand total.
>> |
>> | When the report is run the total is larger than the field is defined.
>> | However it does print properly as 50,083,525.00 which is (13,,2).
>> |
>> | This is helpful as the totals print correctly although larger than the
>> | field definition.
>>
>> Did you just now stumble on totals that comprise more digits than any of
>> the addends?
>>
>> I'm always grateful that we never need to write any processing for
>> subtotals and totals because filePro's totalling mechanism behaves
>> so gracefully.
>>
>> Every time I'm on a web site and I have to enter a phone number in three
>> separate fields or in one ten-character field, or I get rejected if I
>> use dashes when typing Social Security or Tax ID numbers, I once again
>> appreciate the elegance of filePro edits.
>>
>> While I'm on the topic of web pages, am I the only one who resents
>> having to scroll through a column with a mouse instead of just typing
>> the two characters of my state?
>>
>
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