Thanks, Ron,I have a hard time remembering that Legacy is so flexible!
I gather you are talking about the separators options? I hadn't thought
about that and so I have now changed it from slash to dash. I suppose
there's a programming reason that it wouldn't work right (perhaps in a
gedcom export) if there were an option to just keep whatever I entered?
Of course I can always put in explanatory wording, and as I've said I've
been pleased to see that the words don't interfere with the accuracy of the
sorting by date feature.
Pat
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From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:10 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort
You need to go to Options>Customise>Dates and set the formats as you wish
Ron Ferguson
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From: "Patricia Hickin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:20:29 -0400
In entering a date range, I encounter the following problem:
I enter "1910-1915" (without the quotes); what appears is "1910/1915." To
me a slash mark means something more like "it's one or the other, I don't
know which." (I would use a comma if it were something that occurred in
both 1910 and 1915.) But it DOESN'T mean "from . . . to . . .." Is there
a reason for Legacy changing the hyphen to a slash?
I have found that I can add all sorts of explanatory stuff in front of or
after 1910 and the program will still sort the dates correctly. I can
spell out the month and put the date before or after the month and it will
sort correctly. I think that's pretty fantastic myself.
Pat
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