Re: [LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-05 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, Jane I tried HTML, but it did not work. I thought of using HTML because there is a buttom labeled "Strip HTML". If you can strip if, then it should be possible to have it. As for the Notes formatting, you are allowed boldface and underline (that I can remember), and these are part of "ric

Re: [LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, Cathy That sort of works, getting the format right is painful The strange thing is that when you paste the text (tabbed or a complete table), you get everything necely formated. After you save, close and open again, all the formatting is lost. I suspect this may be a bug... Thanks for th

Re: [LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, Ron Works beautifuly! Thanks, Ron Carlos On 04/09/06, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HI Carlos, I do not have MS Excel but do have Open Office.org and from it saved a tabular form, containing five columns of parish register details, as an Excel .xls file. I then attached

[LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, I am trying to find the best way of including some tabular information in Legacy. I would like to include under the tab Notes for Baptism, Marriage, etc., the data I found in Church Records. I would also like to include the label for each fiel in three languages. A table would be the idea

Re: [LegacyUG] Making a backup of my family file

2006-07-24 Thread Carlos Sa
Tom, have you tried the Gates salute yet? (ctrl+alt+delete) There might be some system flag that needs to be reset... Carlos On 7/24/06, Tom Element <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file 'D:\Making CD\Data\Family History060607.fdb'. It is already

Re: [LegacyUG] event dates

2006-07-24 Thread Carlos Sa
Ann and Cathy, Thank you very much for the clarifications. Regards Carlos Montreal, Canada On 7/24/06, Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ann, It's only the Description information that doesn't swap as there is no place for Description in the main events. Place swaps fine as do sources. Cathy

[LegacyUG] resize window vs zoom

2006-07-23 Thread Carlos Sa
Is there a way of resizing Legacy windows without having objects within also resized? I found options that in theory should do it, but these options are ineffective for several windows... ("Options", "Customize", "Stretch fonts when resizing" checkmark is clear; also, Min and Max font size are set

[LegacyUG] event dates

2006-07-23 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, I started populating the Legacy data base, and was surprised to see that I have to enter event data twice (e.g., a person's baptism date and city), once under Event, and once under Individual's information. I would like to know if there is a way to have the dates and locations in "Events"