Changing Main Statuses for an Organization

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Our company has changed its Recruiting process, and we would like to have this change reflected in the Main Statuses that we use.

I understand that if you rename a Main Status, it warns about historical data issues, but if it just renames the Main Status on people and we lose that the Main status was previously called something else, that's is ok.  But if we lose any date, obviously that would be a problem.

Anyone have any experience with this?

- Mellanie