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Post by Howard Metcalfe on Jan 25, 2007 15:23:51 GMT -5
I recommend entering counties in place fields as, e.g., Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland rather than as Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland. This elucidates the county name in reports.
If you only know the county name and you enter Montgomery, Maryland, the reader won't know whether Montgomery is a town or a county.
This applies to other intermediate place names, not only counties, where the subdivision of a place might be misconstrued by a reader. For example, Quebec, Canada might mean the city or the province. (Of course, if you always enter the county, province, etc., name, then you might expect the reader to know the difference.)
Remember that you can abbreviate Montgomery County as Montgomery Co as you enter it and it will automatically be expanded to Montgomery County. Ditto for Parish (Par), Township (Twp). Church (Ch), Cemetery (Cem) -- entered at the end of the subdivision name with the first letter capitalized -- and postal codes capitalized anywhere in place names.
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