The "Name List" is everyone in your database. When a search is performed, the results of the search are presented in the same format as the Name List and that is called the "Search List". You can even search the search results to change the number of individuals found. Look at the 3 buttons at the bottom left of the Search tool. In effect, the Name List is like a search for every individual in the database. The "Search Results" under MyToolbar and "Search List" under Search are the same thing. Likewise, the "Find" under Search is the same thing as "Search" under MyToolbar. Maybe future releases will standardize the names of these buttons. Ron Taylor
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:59 PM, Susan Jones <scjo...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: Many thanks Jenny and Bob, Hadn't realised that I was not using the Name List which has 10695 people. The Search List only has 1565. In L7.5 and all previous versions I had used the Name List to find anyone I was looking for, never the Search List so I am not quite sure why there are the 2 lists. Yes I enter names as Jenny says. Still working my way around many of the features in L8. Thanks again Susan I missed your original post. It sound like you have already created a Search List by some method - and are then searching *that* list, as this is the only way I can find the 'search key at the bottom of the page'. The names will/should show up, as Jenny describes below, *if* they are in the list. When you go to the Search button at the bottom of the page and click on 'Show Name List' you are taken back to the name list of your entire file, not just the Search List. If the name you are seeking has not been included in the Search List then, of course, it will not show up - clicking on 'Name List' takes you to your entire file where it does show up. Bob A On 30/01/2014 02:11, Susan Jones wrote: > I am having a problem using the Name Search option. Using L8 latest > update. If I enter surname then 2 or more Christian names, they do not > appear. I then need to use the search key at the bottom of the page. > If was not a problem previously. Am I missing something? Do you mean finding someone in the name list? If so, as soon as you type the first letter of the surname the focus should jump to the first person in the list whose surname begins with that letter. As you continue to type, the focus moves down to the first matching name again. When you've typed the full name you need to type a comma, a space, then start on the forename. Again, the cursor should keep jumping down the list . Is this not happening for you? It works fine for me. Or are you having a problem somewhere else? -- 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
