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Personally, I don't think future generations will be using paper at all in a while. Well, we don't use gold plates anymore but I'm sure glad Nephi thru Moroni did. ;) This does make one think about where technology is taking us and how to best preserve records for the future. And I appreciate the t...

One of our monthly stake bishopric meetings included Ward Clerks and Finance Clerks. The Area Auditor presented a discussion about the auditing process and gave a lot of tips about doing finances the "right" way. It was very good. I have been doing finances for years and learned a lot. Esp...

That's what I thought but his wording suggested there might be another route. Thanks for the reply.

I am resurrecting this thread because of a current need to get at some HT data dated prior to a complete overhaul of the HT districts and companionships. The OP mentioned that he could open a backup and print the information needed. Is there a way to do that without restoring the backup file to MLS ...

This is a very useful and important tool as we help in Hastening the Work. There is much more to the story, but we recently needed someone to help the missionaries teach a person from Indonesia. I did the report from our ward and didn't find anyone, but we did find a member in the stake who served t...

I consulted my Stake Clerk and got this resolved. At first, we weren't sure what his calling title was. So we looked him up in CDOL. Duh.

The fix in this case is Out of Unit, Custom Calling, Area Seventy

Thanks for the reply

My search ability is not working well tonight. I have a ward member who is serving in one of the Quorums of Seventy. I assumed that his calling (in Organizations and Callings) would be updated by some higher authority but that hasn't happened. He now is on the Members Without Callings report. For th...

I just saw the above reply and wanted to thank scgallafent for taking the time to post it. I don't pretend to know all the ins and outs of databases but I'm always interested in learning how easy or difficult some suggestions might be and the process behind what I see on a screen. I expect my "...

I'm happy to have helped. I suspect that a large number of clerks make the same assumption. I know I did the first time. Not Declared seems like a logical choice until we really understand the purpose of the report.

This topic was discussed in the following thread starting about half way in:

https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=7300#

There might be some info there that will help.