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From: "Chad Milliner" <>
Subject: PAF input fields are NOT hard coded
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:24:57 -0700


PAF lets the user create Custom Templates for the data entry screens. By doing so, you can list only the fields you want, and delete those you do't -- and the fields you can add are whatever you want, including Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Circumcision dates, etc. If there are no predifined input options for an event you want to always be shown on your template, you can define new events, also. To learn how to do all this, search the PAF help files for the topic "How to Create or Modify a Template". I think PAF is a much more powerful and flexible program than most people give it credit for, because they never go beyond the default options. For example, there are language options in PAF 4 and PAF 5 worth examining if English is not the language in which a user is most proficient, and there is the ability, via Unicode, to use absolutely any kind of foreign language character in an input field. This does create problems with GEDCOM, but if I am inputing a place name in Eastern Euro!
pe that is best known by its Cyrillic-alphabet name, then PAF allows me to input the Cyrillic characters.


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