Valerie, In my day job I am a computer training specialist, with particular emphasis on the Microsoft Office suite (this includes Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint), so I am fairly familiar with both Access and Excel.
>From my reading of your e-mails on this subject, I would say that what you require is most easily accomplished through Excel. Luis Salreta's response indicated the way I would do what you are trying to do, i.e., backup your Legacy file first, then export the file to a csv. Open this in Excel, and you can very easily sort on up to 3 columns at a time. If you need help with this, please feel free to contact me off-list. Hope this helps, Dermot. P.S. You know, everybody I've come across on this list is very helpful, and all the responses to your query that I've seen have been helpful, I haven't seen one nasty one. Sometimes, if we're feeling aggrieved about the way we think we're been treated, we always expect that we will be badly treated. When someone sends an e-mail, there is no way to transmit tone of voice, so what you read may not always be the "tone" of the original poster. It's always good to remember that. I would say, when you have a question to ask, ask it (you may have asked a few recently, but that's fine, continue to do so). Just make sure that you give as much relevant information as possible to enable people to answer your question fully. If someone asks for a further clarification, they're not trying to get at you, they're not being nasty, they just want to help you, but need more info so that they can do that. Remember, everybody here (apart from Jim Terry, Geoff Rasmussen and Sherry) is a user just like you, and we have all been in a similar situation to you (i.e., a newbie!) However, if you continue to see "nasty" comments where there aren't any, people will stop trying to help, in case their comment gets labelled as nasty too. Good luck, and continue to ask your questions. On 12/04/2008, Valerie Garton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to put the inforamtion in CULLODEN ONS, a Legacy family history file > in a place where I can search the birth years, and then search again in that > search for the place and then the father. > > Actually that can all be done in the one search once the inforamtion is in > the new place - Access, MS Works database or Excel. > > Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. > Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow & > Wexford > Guild of One-Name Studies No: 4825 for CULLODEN & HIGGINSON > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wynthner > Sent: Saturday, 12 April 2008 1:51 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting a Legacy file to Access > > Valarie, > > Exactly what type of file do you want to export? > A database file, a report file (if a report file what format? Text, HTML, > Doc), other? > Legacy contains many file types that can be exported and Access can import > many file types but each has its own special requirements so until you are a > bit more specific there is really nothing we can do to help you. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Valerie Garton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:53:40 PM > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exporting a Legacy file to Access > > No As I said I want to export A file from Legacy and import it in to Access. > > > I really tried very hard here to make my question very specific. If you have > any suggestions as to how better I should have worded my quesition please > speak up. Could we please have a positive attitude not a negative one. > > Please stop picking on me. I can not help the person I am and I don't see > why my question can not be answered without this UNNECESSARY very hurtful > comments > > Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > 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 > > > > -- Try out Legacy Family Tree Software today! It's FREE!! http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/?Click=1440 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
