You are talking about getting the data into columns, not lines, right? I
equate rows = lines. Hmm, I'd like to try. What is the first column where
you have data examples? Is the first column the date of *when* you enter
that person into Legacy? Legacy is so formidable, I'd bet it would not be
difficult to do on your part.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
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Bashford
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New report needed ... very easy to program ...


         Thanks for all your suggestions ... but I don't think any of them
get what I want ... which is a separate line for birth, marriage, and death
... I do have Genviewer and think it's a wonderful program, but I don't see
any way to get three lines for each person ... nor does the "print" option
on the Legacy name list do it ... it'll produce one line for each person
... not the three I want.

         The idea is to get this:

                 01/01/01        Person A        Birth   Location A

                 05/05/05        Person B        Birth   Location B

                 01/10/10        Person C        Marr    Location C

                 10/10/20        Person A        Marr    Location C

                 10/10/30        Person B        Death   Location C

         etc, etc, etc.

         I'd be more than happy if someone can show me a way to achieve
this within Legacy or Genviewer ... and without diddling around combining
files or sorting them outside the program ... this'd be a piece of cake for
the Legacy programmers ... I doubt that it'd take more than an affternoon
... since they already have the selection and reporting substructure in
place.  Using a .csv file means another program to manipulate that ... and
probably separate files for birth, marriage, and death which have to be
combined ... and then setting up print parameters to output it ... and
adding headers, etc.

         The point of making it a new report is that it's then available to
every Legacy user ... without them having to refer to a page of
instructions or spending an extra hour to get the report done ... it's done
once by the programming staff (which I know is overburdened).

         Just as a matter of background ... I worked with computers from
1967 (not a typo) until 1996 when I retired ... as a programmer, systems
analyst, system designer, and software company owner.  The point of this is
not self-glorification, but rather that I did think it through and am aware
of what is needed to accomplish this and where it might best be
achieved.  Users shouldn't have to diddle.  Btw, I do admire Legacy, both
for its abilities and for the responsiveness and availability of the staff.

         Regards,

         Bob

At 12:12 PM 03/03/05 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>
>Using Dennis's suggestion - select option CSV file and then you can sort
and
>play to your heart's content!
>
>And of course before printing / extracting, you can go to options and
>Customise the detail you want.
>
>Regards ...... Susie Z
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dennis Kowallek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:38 AM
>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New report needed ... very easy to program ...
>
>
>On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:20:01 -0500, Bob Bashford
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
> >I'd like to see a report which, for selected persons (all persons,
family,
> >tagged, focus group, descent line, etc), lists the birth, marriage, and
> >death dates
>
>Or go to the Name List and click "Print...".
>
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