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Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:59:53 -0600
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Re: Keeping a Field one line
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On 2011 Feb 4, at 14:44, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:

> Why not just an autoenter calc...
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> Trim ( Substitute ( Author First ; "¶" ; " " ) )
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> ...and take care of it for them?



Habit. Started doing it the other way years ago, and it worked nicely, so I never stopped to ask whether there might be a better way to go about it.

I'm sure we're all familiar with the minimal-thot-required practice of saying "Aha, I've already got something that addresses this problem, I'll just copy it over rather than have to think up something new." I do that a lot.

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