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The way I did it in our ward for consistency changes for a lot of records is
to bring up the Abbreviated directory. It lists the names, address, phone of
each family, you can just click on the name and it opens the family record.
Change what needs to be changed and then close it and it goes back to the
Abbrev. Dir. Very easy to see inconsistencies. You can click on Customize at
the top of the page to display the children and correct them in the same
way. I used this to fix phone numbers, preferred names for parents and
children and address inconsistencies like Drive instead of Dr and to remove
punctuation from addresses like Dr instead of Dr. Some of the software I use
on these records does not like punctuation in the records.
Just my 2 cents.
Greg A. Anderson
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You'll notice when you look at an individual record that there are two arrow
buttons at the top right corner of the panel. These allow you to move back
and forth from one record to the next (in alphabetical order). The button in
the middle, with the magnifying glass, lets you search. Either way, you
remain on the same portion of the record that you were looking at for the
previous person.
If I were trying to make all the phone numbers consistent, for example, I
would pull up the first record, go to the "Contact Information" tab, make
any changes, then click on the right arrow to the next person, make any
changes, click the right arrow, etc. In this way you can fairly quickly
cycle through all the records while viewing the same piece(s) of data--so
you will likely catch all the problems. Note that you can edit common data
(addresses, phone numbers) for any family member and it changes for all
family members, which is nice; that way you don't have to stop to figure out
which person is the head of household.
Mark Werner
Provo Utah East Stake
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