JL
What you are saying is correct but as I read Kent's email he wanted the option
to sort and the "House of David" in another column. I cannot see how this can
be done using your method.
Ron Ferguson
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> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:17:41 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re:SORTABLE LISTS?
>
> You can also search all the descendants at once or one line at a time,
> set up the columns you want in Print Options and export the file as .csv
> that can be imported into a spreadsheet. You've got all kinds of
> options here and it shouldn't take long at all.
>
> JL
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> JLB wrote:
>> My first answer has not come through and maybe it isn't going to. I
>> don't think it's complicated at all and yes, Legacy can do it.
>>
>> Search each of the seven siblings, one at a time, using Miscellaneous
>> Search and print out the list you want using the Print Options in the
>> Name List. It sounds like you want names, email addresses and "House
>> of". "House of" would be your title for each print out. Under
>> Customize choose name and email address and blank the rest of the
>> columns.
>>
>> JL
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>> Myrick wrote:
>>> I know this isn't the kind of thing Legacy is set up for, but I was
>>> sort of
>>> hoping there might be some "back door" way of doing it!
>>>
>>> Oh well..... Yes, I know how to do it with a spreadsheet, and have
>>> done it
>>> with Word Perfect before. I just don't WANT to do it again, since I'd
>>> have to re-type all those names that are already in Legacy.
>>>
>>> Thanks Ron.
>>>
>>> Kent Myrick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* ronald ferguson
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, March 21, 2008 11:30 AM
>>> *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] Re:SORTABLE LISTS?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kent,
>>>
>>> I don't know a way of doing that in Legacy and I suspect you would
>>> need at least a spreadsheet to do it rather than I would processor
>>> (although I have not thought that through). The free database
>>> which I will be putting on my fergys.co website at the end of this
>>> month will do it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ron Ferguson
>>>
>>>
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>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> To: [email protected]
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>>> Subject: [LegacyUG] Re:SORTABLE LISTS?
>>> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:59:52 -0700
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there any kind of report (file) Legacy can make that will show
>>> simple
>>>
>>> line items, such as:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kent Myrick House of David E-mail address
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to be able to sort the file. I can do it in a word
>>> processor file,
>>>
>>> but it would really simplify things for me if Legacy can do it
>>> somehow.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why? Several years ago we had a Frazier family reunion. Our
>>> immigrant
>>>
>>> ancestor had 7 children, and just for fun, we divided the group
>>> up by
>>>
>>> their names, e.g. "House of David", "House of Isaac" and so
>>> on. We had
>>>
>>> name tags and a hand-drawn chart showing each House and the members
>>>
>>> of each who were at the reunion. It turned out to be a fun way of
>>> creating
>>>
>>> smaller groups of closer relatives, and we photographed each House
>>>
>>> separately.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We kept lists of each House by hand back then, but all have since
>>> been
>>>
>>> lost and re-creating them is a labor I'd rather not take on
>>> again. BUT
>>>
>>> all those people are in my Legacy file, and if I could somehow
>>> permanently
>>>
>>> note them in a file, I'd be ecstatic.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I know there's one way to do it with the Address File. There are
>>> already
>>>
>>> blanks for name and e-mail address, and I could put the House in
>>> any of
>>>
>>> the other fields that I don't need. But there's no way to sort
>>> that list
>>>
>>> and print it out except by using the Name Tag function, which
>>> doesn't
>>>
>>> do what I need. Or is there????
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And I don't want to use the Tags because they're not permanent
>>> markers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there any other way?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kent Myrick
>>>
>>>
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