Hi Pat,
"When you put so much info into the detail, how do you avoid a lot of
retyping when a week or an hour hence you need to cite the same source
with some minor variations?"
I would copy the source back into the Source Clipboard, make the desired
changes, then attach the "new" source to the item that relates to it.
If you open the Assigned Sources for an individual (the books icon) you
will see at the bottom left an icon that looks like two sheets of
paper. Hover your cursor over that icon, and it will tell you its
purpose is to "Copy Source to Clipboard".
Highlight the source you want to reuse, then click on that icon. A
message will come up (if there's anything already in the Source
Clipboard) asking whether to overwrite the existing source, or append
this new one to it. Every case I've had so far I've wanted to replace
the existing.
Then open up the Source Clipboard (click on the upwards-facing arrow or
press <Alt><1>*) to edit it - you're only changing what is in the Source
Clipboard, not what has already been assigned to your data.
Now it is ready to be assigned to your data.
Don't forget also, to use your mouse/keyboard to copy/cut/paste for you
instead of retyping things that are already visible on your screen,
whether it's in your Legacy database, a web page, a document someone has
sent you, or whatever. If you don't know how to do this, there are some
instructions on my web site at
http://www.geocities.com/wendy_m_howard/How-to.htm It's a very handy
tool that I use many times each day - including for inserting my
signature that you see below, and all URLs that you see in my posts.
* see "shortcut keys" in the Help files for more keyboard shortcuts.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/>
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