Isn't it prompting you to double check that any notes or comments that need to be added have been added?
For example, I copy Jane's baptism register source, and paste it to her father's occupation event, prompted for detail I add in Text/Comments "Citation for daughter Jane's baptism, gives evidence of father's occupation" Or, Copy Fred's burial register source, paste to Fred's birth event, prompted for detail I add in Text/Comments "Citation for burial, register lists age thus implying approx year of birth" On 10 January 2014 01:21, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: > In Legacy 8 I have just set Option 7.4 to Default of Off, as I had it in > Legacy 7.5, because it was really annoying me that the Detail Screen > kept popping up until I remembered that I could switch it off. > > But it occurred to me that the prompt, when set to On, occurs too late. > The sequence is: > > 1 Enter Source Details. > 2 Copy Source to Clipboard. > 3 Paste Source Clipboard. > 4 The Source Detail screen appears with a ticked checkbox for Prompt > for detail. > > If you don't want to set the default of Off, but want to be able to > choose sometimes to be prompted, you want to be prompted at the time of > Copying to the Clipboard. If you could choose at that point, you could > UNtick the box then happily roam around your family file going Paste, > Paste, Paste without interruption. > > Very often I am only going to paste that Source once so presenting me > with the Source Detail when I've already Pasted and then saying "do you > want to be prompted for this?" is just silly! > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
