[LegacyUG] Exporting to a Legacy file

2008-09-06 Thread Boyd Miller
Part way through the process of exporting a family to a Legacy file (File>Export to>Legacy file), the screen titles "Combine event definition" shows, with the name and sentence settings for an event. The headings on this screen, "Event in current family file" and "Event being imported", are not r

Re: [LegacyUG] Possible Tagging enhancment

2008-09-06 Thread Dave Naylor
On 6 Sep 2008 Kathy Shiell-Stokes wrote: > The idea is this: Having a toggle on off switch that could eliminate a > specified tag number from being wiped out when doing a clear all tags. > While doing it for only three or four out of the nine would be ok, > having a toggle on all tag numbers wou

Re: [LegacyUG] ... Legacy 7, Managing Media File Location ... Jim Hughes

2008-09-06 Thread Jim Hughes
Terri Brown ... Thank you for your guidance. I put my 'Pictures/Sounds' on my C: drive so that I could easily share with the other computers in my house; a few have only the C: drive. Thank for the directions re: Legacy folder changing ... makes it easy. Take care and, thanks for your guidance

Re: [LegacyUG] ... Legacy 7, Managing Media File Location ... Jim Hughes

2008-09-06 Thread Terri Brown
Jim,   I don't bother with Legacy's Pictures and Sounds folders. I have 2 hard drives in my PC - one for the operating system and programs and one for my files. Long before I started using Legacy, I set up folders for photos and scans of all my genealogy documents on my D: drive arranged accordi

Re: [LegacyUG] ... Legacy 7, Managing Media File Location ... Jim Hughes

2008-09-06 Thread Jim Hughes
Jim Smith ... ... you are in my will ... thank you ! ... I looked all over; must get better at looking. Thanks Jim Smith Take care. Jim ** - Original Message - From: Jim Smith To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 8:48 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] ... Legacy 7, Managing Media File Location ... Jim Hughes

2008-09-06 Thread Jim Smith
>From Help/Symbols on Names: A "§" at the end of a child means that person is >married but has no children Jim Smith - Original Message - From: Jim Hughes To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 8:18 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] ... Legacy 7, Ma

[LegacyUG] ... Legacy 7, Managing Media File Location ... Jim Hughes

2008-09-06 Thread Jim Hughes
Good Day ... ... I hope all is good ... Your help will be appreciated re: 1. I want to know which is the better/best location to store my Legacy 7 media files for my 'Scrapbook' entries. 2. The manual states that two folders, Pictures and Sounds, are created within the Legacy folder and, str

Re: [LegacyUG] UNDO

2008-09-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can imagine that undo from a merge could be a significant undertaking, but fwiw I have often wished there was a simple undo that would undo a single action or two, like a delete, or similar. Jeff Chick Lewis wrote: Thanks Brian... That's what I figured... Would it be possible for an UNDO fe

Re: [LegacyUG] UNDO

2008-09-06 Thread Chick Lewis
Thanks Brian... That's what I figured... Would it be possible for an UNDO feature in a future patch? On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Brian/Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lew, > > The only way to revert to the situation before you merged those sources is > to restore from a backup of your f

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread Donna Felina Roach
If you are talking about the source template, instead of a yellow popup each field has text that is gray not yellow. For more information, from the home page, click on the heading four sourcewriter tips, and the information you seek is explained and demonstrated. Donna Roach North Carolina -

Re: [LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Wynthner
I would beg to differ... If I buy a certain software package because of a particular way it does a certain thing and it works properly and then I buy the next upgrade and find that it has changed the way that certain function works I have a perfect right to feel somewhat less than warm and fuzzy

Re: [LegacyUG] Possible Tagging enhancment

2008-09-06 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
If you want to retain a specific tag number, just don't clear all tags. You can clear them one by one - I don't mean individual by individual, but specific tags, as many tag numbers as you need to clear. Elizabeth researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson - Orig

Re: [LegacyUG] Possible Tagging enhancment

2008-09-06 Thread Ruth Nerud
Yes, please, pass on to the powers that be. It would be helpful to me now also (thanks for the tip, Kathy). Ruth A. (Sconza Testa) Nerud [EMAIL PROTECTED] From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life. Richard Paul Evans - Original Message ---

[LegacyUG] Possible Tagging enhancment

2008-09-06 Thread Kathy Shiell-Stokes
I have been having an offline discussion with another member that is sort of an offshoot of Robert Carneal's post re:intermarriage. In one my rare moments of inspiration I came up with an enhancement idea that might be able to be implemented fairly easily(ie without breaking anything else) that

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Nor universally on the main input screen. Rich in LA CA --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Quest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Quest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 8:31 AM > Kim, > > Than

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
On the individual information screen for myself, I hovered over death and it never showed ('yellow'). I am not filling that in yet. ;-) They seem to be disappearing somehow? --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Mike Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mike Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fo

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
In checking out what you stated, I found that the 'yellow box' at present time, only shows up over icons, but not over field names (like born) on neither the main screen, nor the individual information screen. But on the main screen, they do show up for the spouses of the children. If I remember

Re: [LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Gene Young
Ron Bernier wrote: Gene, I could not disagree with you more. No software company, be it Millenia, Microsoft, or any other company has any obligation to let the customers decide how the software should be developed. You, me, and all of the other folks who purchased Legacy purchased the softw

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread Quest
Blush . . . . no, I wasn't. It works now . . . . another blush! Thanks a bunch, Karima From: Randolph Clark Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 10:37 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips Are you hovering over the field name (far

RE: [LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Ron Bernier
Gene, I could not disagree with you more. No software company, be it Millenia, Microsoft, or any other company has any obligation to let the customers decide how the software should be developed. You, me, and all of the other folks who purchased Legacy purchased the software, not specific opt

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread Mike Fry
Quest wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. I checked and I have all of the pop-ups enabled, but it still doesn't work. Other pop-ups work in the program, but not on the source template. It only seems to work with fields for which no data has been added. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg.

Re: [LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
How do you know they all appear without entering them one at a time? Do you add them all to the same event? Also, these appear to be different events, in my opinion, so shouldn't carry the same source. I do have events where I've learned the same information from different sources, so these even

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread Randolph Clark
Are you hovering over the *field name* (far left)? On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Quest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kim, > > Thank you for the suggestion. I checked and I have all of the pop-ups > enabled, but it still doesn't work. Other pop-ups work in the program, but > not on the source

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread Quest
Kim, Thank you for the suggestion. I checked and I have all of the pop-ups enabled, but it still doesn't work. Other pop-ups work in the program, but not on the source template. Karima -- From: "K Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, S

Re: [LegacyUG] Intermarriages

2008-09-06 Thread Kathy Shiell-Stokes
I would find this to be a really handy addition since I KNOW there are multiple family connections all over my tree. I suspect that the best way would be to go through the tree and, and,after deciding which tag number you want to use, tag the people involved in the relationship. When finished,

Re: [LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Gene Young
Margaret Wilkinson wrote: ''you're the only person who has taken time to write that they miss it!'' Not so Sherry. I used the 'Suggest a new feature' in Legacy itself to write about this issue some weeks ago. I did not have a reply. I used the append multiple sources frequently in Version 6, a

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread K Dawson
Karima, you might have to have pop-ups enabled. Options> Customize>General Tab>on the right hand side, it says "Popup Information Boxes" Kim When I try the "hover your cursor over the field name on the left and a yellow memo field will appear", it does not appear on my screen . . . and I do

Re: [LegacyUG] Four SourceWriter tips

2008-09-06 Thread Quest
When I try the "hover your cursor over the field name on the left and a yellow memo field will appear", it does not appear on my screen . . . and I do have the latest build. Karima -- "Geoff Rasmussen" wrote: Tip #1 - Faint instructions The ima

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-06 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:57:31 -0700, JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's not my job to bring it back. No. Not mine either. I am perfectly happy with V6 (except for the leftover bugs). -- Dennis Kowallek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Emails not of "Content-Type: text/plain" are deleted before ever r

[LegacyUG] gedtokml

2008-09-06 Thread Tim
This message is really directed to David Baker who I believe produced the application gedtokml, which I found interesting. Dave, I assume that the crosses that appear in Google Earth are cumulative as the more Gedcoms are entered and cannot be made to refer to one Gedcom at a time? Is it po

[LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Margaret Wilkinson
''you're the only person who has taken time to write that they miss it!'' Not so Sherry. I used the 'Suggest a new feature' in Legacy itself to write about this issue some weeks ago. I did not have a reply. I used the append multiple sources frequently in Version 6, and miss it from Version 7.