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- "SUPPRESS DUPLICATIONS HELP"
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- "During the process of record alignment on specified segment POWER COPY"
- "will reject move pairs that contain source, target (or both) records"
- "that have been used as the source/target of a record pairing."
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- "There are MANY instances in which you would wish to reject duplicates."
- "Only you know the data you are moving and how it should align. I wish"
- "I did, I'd be able to write you a much better help screen."
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- "Whether or not you opt for the suppression of duplicates they will be"
- "found (if they occur) and the dialog box will list the number found for"
- "the source and target records."
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- "Finding/suppressing duplicates is quite useful in finding errors before"
- "they happen. The inter-base update operation usually adheres to one of"
- "three scenarios: Data from a source record is supposed to go to multi-"
- "ple target records, Data from multiple source records is supposed to"
- "go to a single target record, Or data from a single source record needs"
- "to travel to only one target record."
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- "In the first scenario the existence of a target dup would indicate that"
- "a target record was receiving data from more than one source record and"
- "that would probably be an error. Vice-versa for the second scenario."
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- "In the third scenario dupes in ether file would be an error."
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- "If you opt for duplicate rejection in any of the available formats you"
- "will be prompted to make your printed ready before datafile alignment"
- "is executed. If dupes are found in the file(s) you specified they will"
- "be listed to the printer. If not the report, and the totals in the"
- "dialog box will be blank."
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- "If you need to exit POWER COPY and make corrections to the datafiles"
- "you may do so by pressing F10 after the alignment is finished."