Thanks Cathy for the insight - I went back and removed teh numbers in my Master Source Titles. I guess what I want to accomplish is to be able to have a Master Source File ID number, and a Detail File ID (if both are applicable) to the end note data, so I can refer to researchb data I may have filed either electron ically or in paper form.
I've decided to use the MRIN File ID system suggested (-1, -2, etc for all pieces of paper in the folder), but assigning a Master File ID has me at a stopping point. In an earlier message sent before reading your reply, I posed a question about keeping an offline Excel SS of numbers just to assign to each Master Number the next sequential number. I would really like for Legacy to assign the number, but is it possible? I have about 200 Master Sources and encountering more each time I go researching, and setting them up alpabetically could be daunting. Bob ---- Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I'm not sure what you've done. Have you added the number to the > Source List Name or the Source Title? > and what do you mean by "event portion" > > You edit Sources in the Master Source list which you can get to in > various ways - including from the Assigned Sources screen which you > may have accessed through going to a Source attached to an Event? > > Whether the Source List Name appears in your Endnotes is controlled > by Options > Customise - Sources tab. > > Since the Source List Name is really there as a finding aid for the > Legacy user, it doesn't really belong in the endnotes/printed source. > It will be used, I think, if you haven't filled in a Title or other > data to identify the source- so that may account for why you get it > some places and not others if you've added your number to the Source > List Name. I can't conceive of why you'd mess up your Source Titles > with a number. However, you may want to use one in the Source List > Name to be more organised if you have your Sources listed somewhere > else by number. > > If you want a printout of your sources, use the Source Citation > Report which you'll find in the Reports - Books/Other or from the > Master Source list - Options - Print. > > Cathy > > At 07:37 AM 12/04/2008, you wrote: > > >I need some guidance. I renamed about 100 sources in an attempt to > >organize my sources in some logical fashion by adding a 4 digit > >number to the title. I 'edited' the source in the event portion > >and prefixed the source with the number. Why wouldn't the new > >4-digit source name appear in the end notes? Some of the 4-digit > >ones appear, but I can't figure what I have done to foul up just > >some of them. BTW I do have the original data intact so I could > >revert to it if needed. > > > >Any ideas? I need some help..... > > > >Bob > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
