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Hello anyone out there in cyber space.

what a great tool this has been! I'm very grateful.

I am trying to add a field/note don't know what to call it, but it is for assigning individuals with a "district"

our church is divided into 5 districts and i would like to be able to filter in the end all those individuals in district 1 for example.

I went into file and changed one to District, however, it does not all me to enter anything into the drop down box.

I am using PowerChurch v. 9
thank you

Sounds like a perfect use for the custom codes in Family Mailing List.

The first thing you'll do is go into File -> Preferences -> Family Mailing List and on the Codes tab, enter "District" as the label for one of the code selections.

Then, go to Membership -> Family Mailing List -> Maintain Custom Codes and select your "District" code on the left, and add your 5 option descriptions using the "Add" button.

You can then go into Membership -> Family Mailing List -> Maintain Family Mailing List and assign the proper district to each family.

When you run any of the Family Mailing List reports or labels, you should be able to filter by that District code to get only the results you want.

We also have districts, called "Care/Share" groups. I use the Visit Areas field to enter the proper code. Seems like this accomplishes the same end result. Our congregation is small enough that we don't have to "map" out our neighborhoods so we don't have to worry about how that field is used.
I like Zaphod's solution also.