I ignore the "four field convention" also. I live in the US, in a city,
and I need to put street addresses in always. I have a grandfather with
at least 15 street address in a half-mile radius in Philadelphia. I
will just need to take my chances with the program.
Elizabeth C
Mary Young wrote:
> On 13 September 2010 18:02, Ron Ferguson<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> In case you don't know, I am English, and in my long time experience the so
>> called "four field convention" which encourages one to use doesn't work for
>> us, so forget it. Secondly, using the Address Book means that including them
>> in reports is restricted, and in my view is situated inappropriately. Having
>> got that off my chest, I recommend that you use the British address format
>> for the place and put iit in the Location Field, and I find it best to
>> include the house/road in that field so that it looks like:
>>
>> 2 Park Road, Winton, Eccles, Salford, Lancashire, England.
>>
> I wholeheartedly agree with Ron, forget the "four field convention" it
> doesn't work for us Scots either :-)
> My only small difference - I put a comma after the house number, so
> the "right-to-left" sorting works 100%.
>
> e.g. without the comma:
> 15 Park Road
> 18 Western Terrace
> 26 Dreadlocks Street
> 37 Park Road
>
>
> with the comma:
> Dreadlocks Street, 26
> Park Road, 15
> Park Road, 37
> Western Terrace, 18
>
> My extended family were in Glasgow Govan over 60 years, and this
> sorting by street and then number has been an eye-opener. I can spot
> where a man has married "the girl next door" or a family has moved
> across the street into a bigger flat.
>
> -- Mary Young
>
>
>
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