Elizabeth, If you don't bang your head on a brick wall how do you know how stong the wall is? :-)
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Old Source Detail associated with newly Merged Master > Sources > Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:05:59 -0800 > > I have only been loosely following this thread because I am not using the > source writer. However, Geoff posted that, according to programmer Dave B. > (who I would think would know the program pretty well), you cannot merge old > sources into the new source writer because old source detail does not > convert correctly. This will be addressed sometime in the future. I don't > know why some of you are continuing to try to do this. It seems like a case > of pounding your forehead on a brick wall. > > Elizabeth > researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jenny M Benson" > To: > Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 3:09 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Old Source Detail associated with newly Merged > Master Sources > > >> >> ronald ferguson wrote >>>I'm afraid that I have only loosely been following this thread. I cannot >>>understand why you do not highlight the bit of the line "Event: Census -24 >>>June 1880, Goldsberry Township......." and use Ctrl + C to copy it? >>>(Actually I don't see why you are not getting the full detail below that >>>line either, but maybe that's another story! I always check "Show entire >>>source" so that I can copy the citation date). >> >> The problem is this. Once you have combined an old-style Master Source >> with a SourceWriter Master Source, the only place you are able to see >> anything that was originally typed into Source Details (the first Detail >> screen, not Text or Comments) is in the Detail column of the upper portion >> of the Assigned Sources screen, from where it cannot be copied. >> >> It doesn't show in the Footnote/Endnote Citation showing in the lower >> portion of the screen and does not appear when you click on Edit Detail. >> >> There *is* a way to be able to Copy and Paste the old Detail, but I think >> it is much more awkward and time-consuming than simply Reading/Typing the >> old to the new. The other way is to create the new SourceWriter Master >> Source and *do not* combine the old Source into it. Go to each person >> using the old source and in Assigned Sources Ctrl-C the relevant details >> from the citation in the lower part of the window. Then click Cite a >> Master Source and select the new SourceWriter Master and Paste the >> Details. When you have done this for everyone, combine the old Source >> with the new. Then everyone will have 2 copies of that Source, old and >> new and you need to go back and delete the old one. I don't recommend >> this method! >> >> Also, what you typed before in Source Detail doesn't always match up with >> the new fields in Detail Information. >> >> I have now converted my IGI and BVRI sources to the new style and am >> working my way through adjusting the details. It is not taking long - a >> couple of evening's work and I am about half done. I feel the amount of >> detail and the look of my new Sources makes them very professional and to >> me it is time well-spent. >> -- >> Jenny M Benson >> _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000007ukm/direct/01/ 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
