Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-19 Thread Cathy
You CAN keep whatever you enter in a date field - but you lose some of the other checking features. Simply turn off Date Checking in Options > Customise - Dates Tab. No problem with Gedcom export. Some programs may have problems importing non-standard dates but I haven't seen that. I think i

Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-19 Thread Patricia Hickin
- From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:10 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort You need to go to Options>Customise>Dates and set the formats as you wish Ron Ferguson

Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-19 Thread Patricia Hickin
2006 7:38 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort Or.. "between 1910 and 1915"...? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Young Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: R

Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-19 Thread Jenny M Benson
Jenny M Benson wrote However, to get what you mean to print correctly in reports you need to enter from 1910-1915 which Legacy will change to From 1910 to 1915 OR bet 1910-1915 which Legacy will change to Between 1910 and 1915 The latter is much more logical when you think about it. Da

Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-19 Thread Jenny M Benson
Cathy wrote However, to get what you mean to print correctly in reports you need to enter from 1910-1915 which Legacy will change to From 1910 to 1915 OR bet 1910-1915 which Legacy will change to Between 1910 and 1915 The latter is much more logical when you think about it. Dates expr

Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-18 Thread Cathy
Hi Pat, Take a look at Options > Customise Dates tab. I think you'll find you have your date separator set to / If you change this to the dash, you'll get the look you want. However, to get what you mean to print correctly in reports you need to enter from 1910-1915 which Legacy will change

Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-18 Thread Susan Daily
Pat, Go to Options -> Customize -> Dates -> and change your separator from slash to dash. Susan On 10/18/06, Patricia Hickin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In entering a date range, I encounter the following problem: I enter "1910-1915" (without the quotes); what appears is "1910/1915." To me a s

RE: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-18 Thread ronald ferguson
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RE: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-18 Thread Tim Willis
Or.. "between 1910 and 1915"...? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Young Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort I think you co

Re: [LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-18 Thread Mary Young
I think you could enter "from 1910 to 1915" (without the quotes). Mary Young On 10/18/06, Patricia Hickin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In entering a date range, I encounter the following problem: I enter "1910-1915" (without the quotes); what appears is "1910/1915." Legacy User Group guideli

[LegacyUG] Date entry and date sort

2006-10-18 Thread Patricia Hickin
In entering a date range, I encounter the following problem: I enter "1910-1915" (without the quotes); what appears is "1910/1915." To me a slash mark means something more like "it's one or the other, I don't know which." (I would use a comma if it were something that occurred in both 1910 an