Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Probably the update after v7.0.0.55 when they removed the very useful option to merge a basic source into a sourcewriter source. The programmers assume we are all idiots and try to make it idiot proof even if it means removing a useful feature. -- Richard Van Wasshnova http://www.gencircles.com/us

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2009-02-11 Thread Michele Lewis
I am surprised I didn't notice it before now. I actually used it quite a bit. michele - Original Message - From: "Judy" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] appending? Michele~ You're not seeing it because it was remov

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2009-02-11 Thread Judy
Michele~ You're not seeing it because it was removed several "upgrades" back. :-( Glad to know that there is someone other than myself who misses the feature. Judy - Original Message - From: "Michele Lewis" To: "Legacy E-Mail List" Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:40 PM S

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

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Lewis
I am just happy that finally several people know what I am talking about :) Since it isn't available in V7 I will just live with it :) michele - Original Message - From: "Dennis M. Kowallek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:51 PM S

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Dan Bateham
05, 2008 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] appending? On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:19:59 -0700, JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought it was a nuisance to have to make yet another decision at that point because who would ever want to append to an existing source? You were not appending to an exi

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread JLB
Yep, that's what I meant. Apparently my usual eloquence is under the weather today. It's not my job to bring it back. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog.html Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:19:59 -0700, JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:19:59 -0700, JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I thought it was a nuisance to have to make yet another >decision at that point because who would ever want to append to an >existing source? You were not appending to an existing source. You were appending an additional citati

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread JLB
Michele, I woke up this morning to a thread called 'Appending' that went the whole length of my screen. I didn't dare jump in for fear of being irrelevant. Obviously, I missed the spirit of it. Every few emails there you were again saying, is essence, EVERYBODY IS MISUNDERSTANDING ME. Tha

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 08:46:58 +1000, "Judy Wardlaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You do not have to keep going back to the individual to add a new sources to >the clipboard. You can save up to 10 sources on the clipboard as you could >in Version 6 .When you want to add saved source(s) to another i

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Judy Wardlaw
Michelle You do not have to keep going back to the individual to add a new sources to the clipboard. You can save up to 10 sources on the clipboard as you could in Version 6 .When you want to add saved source(s) to another individual all you need to do is right click on the "Open source clipbo

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
rest)" Since I never used it, prefering to work with only one source at a time (Not good at multi-tasking?) but it is still there (apparently). Sorry for my confusion, Rich in LA CA --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Dennis M. Kowallek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dennis M. Kowallek <[

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Sorry, but since I could not understand 'appending' to a source, decided to watch who else answered. What do you mean? I have some sources, which are correspondences to me from family memebers, (Source name = Smith, John) that I include in the 'text of source' the transcripts of each letter, the

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Lewis
Yes, Gene!!! That's it! That is exactly what I am talking about It won't let me do that anymore. michele From the help file: - "Quick Copy Existing Citations to the Source Clipboard "You can copy one or more (up to five) so

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Lewis
looks like two pieces of paper) and it would ask you if you wanted to overwrite or append. Now you only have the option to overwrite. michele - Original Message - From: "Robert Carneal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Leg

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: No, not the tab things. I am having a hard time explaining this. Ok Let's say I pull up a person and I am looking at their list of sources. I can highlight a source and hit that copy button on the left hand side at the bottom and a box will come up that says, Copy

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Fry
Michele Lewis wrote: Append means add to. For example... I highlight a source I want to copy so that I can use if for the next person. Then I highlight another source and I want to ADD it to what I am going to copy. Then when I go to the person I am going to copy to, BOTH sources will be co

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
mpson - Original Message - From: "Robert Carneal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 5:52 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] appending? I wish I could include a graphic. If, she is referring to the five sources available shown by five different tabs, we

RE: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Sherry/Support
ce. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Young Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:06 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] appending? From the

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Lewis
ay, September 05, 2008 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] appending? Michele, I think I understand what you are talking about, but I still think it does refer to the tabs on the old V6 source clipboard. In V6, if you selected to copy a source to the clipboard, you were asked if you wanted append

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Carneal
I wish I could include a graphic. If, she is referring to the five sources available shown by five different tabs, we seem to have more now, albeit pretty well hidden. Michele, please try this and see if it answers your query: 1. Open Legacy 2. Select someone, to go to that person's Individual

RE: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread ronald ferguson
.uk/fergys/ _ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] appending? > Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:03:46 -0400 > > Append means add to. > > For example... I highlight

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Carneal
But, I can save up to ten saved sources and pick from those. I pick from a drop down list, not tabs. Would that serve your needs? I will send you some screen shots off list if you want. Robert At 2008-09-05 08:13 AM, you wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:32:14 -0400, "Michele Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Judy
Michele~ We can no longer "append" sources in Version 7. Version 6 had the fantastic capability of allowing us to have multiple sources available on a "tabbed" clipboard and "append" or overwrite on the tabs. Version 7 does not offer us that option. Still a great program. Judy My que

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Jessica Morgan
I believe (and could be wrong) that she is referring to the Source Clipboard, and in V6 you could have, I believe, up to five sources, depicted by five different tabs. The source clipboard in V7 appears to be a singular source at a time, with no multiple clipboard option. I've wondered this same

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Dermot McGlone
Michele, I think I understand what you are talking about, but I still think it does refer to the tabs on the old V6 source clipboard. In V6, if you selected to copy a source to the clipboard, you were asked if you wanted append (i.e., add that source to the sources already on the clipboard) or if

RE: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Jane Fabiano-Turner
lf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:51 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] appending? Michele, I'm afraid that I, for one, do not know what you mean by "append" in this context - which may imply that the answer is

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Lewis
No, not the tab things. I am having a hard time explaining this. Ok Let's say I pull up a person and I am looking at their list of sources. I can highlight a source and hit that copy button on the left hand side at the bottom and a box will come up that says, Copy the highlighted source c

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Lewis
. michele - Original Message - From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:50 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] appending? Michele, I'm afraid that I, for one, do not know what you mean by "append" in this context - whi

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:32:14 -0400, "Michele Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My questions was not answered. Can we or can we not append sources? > >When I am working on a specific person and I go into his/her source list and >I highlight a source I want to copy, I could swear that version 6 wo

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Thomas Herson
Appending means adding to something that already exists. I understand perferctly well what she means. - Original Message - From: "Jane Fabiano-Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:00 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] appending? Can't

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Lewis
2008 9:00 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] appending? Can't you just add another source to the person? Michelle, is that what you mean by append? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please note my new email) Visit my websites: www.wmwebmasters.com and www.jftwd.com -Original Message- From:

RE: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread ronald ferguson
Michele, I'm afraid that I, for one, do not know what you mean by "append" in this context - which may imply that the answer is "no". Ron Ferguson _ *New* Insert Pictures Into your Web Pages - Blogs http://www.fergys.co.uk V