"just bob" <kilbyfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hello John,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. Collections is something I need to try, too
>
> The Find command is great for things I know exists, but that is not
always
> the case.
>
> I do event work with many participants and captioning (populating the
> Description field) can take hours if not a whole day. What is nice with
> the Filter Panel and Keywords is if one or more of the images has an
> incorrect keyword (i.e. typo) it appears as it's own entry on the Filter
> Panel - it sort of sticks out like a sore thumb.
>
> So I've resorted to duplicating (copy/paste) my Description text into
the
> keyword field as I am working and it works OK as it allows me to pseudo
> filter by description. Except the keyword field is not the description
> field so I cannot see discrepancies. And the keyword field does not
handle
> punctuation well, for example a comma is automatically replaced with a
> semi colon and the data is parsed into multiple keywords.
>
> Thanks again for the interesting suggestions and I am going to play with
> collections which could solve my issue of not having enough colored
> labels!
A description of a typical task would be helpful, for example what you do
to the photos, specifically what you must enter in the data, and so-forth.
I suppose you know this, but if you have a whole folder of the same event
that requires the same Description, you can fill the Description in all
those images at once in the blink of an eye.
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