[LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-05 Thread John Ellis
Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an individual from my main Legacy file. I want to copy that individual from a fairly old Legacy8 file to the main file without doing a merge.just want to end up with the deleted individual back in the index list in the main file so I can link her to t

RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-05 Thread Kurt Kneeland
and copy/paste or retype the data items. From: John Ellis [mailto:jelli...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 4:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? Importance: High Am working with

Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-05 Thread Sherry/Support
John, Use split-screen drag and drop. You'll have to make sure the old file has a different name than the newer file so you don't get the two mixed up. I'd append "old" to the file name. Open the file that you want to copy into go to View > Split Screen to open a second window and select to open

RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-06 Thread Michele/Support
milyTree.com From: John Ellis [mailto:jelli...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 5:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? Importance: High Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an ind

RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-06 Thread John Ellis
, 2013 6:19 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? I hope I am understanding your question correctly. How about using the Split Screen to drag the person from file to file? Michele Technical

Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 06/12/2013 21:45, John Ellis wrote: > Tried to drag and drop the person from one file to the other during > Split Screen and couldn’t get it to work in either Family or Index > views. What specifically do I have to do to perform a drag and drop? "Couldn't get it work" is a bit vague. Please t

RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-06 Thread John Ellis
t: Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? On 06/12/2013 21:45, John Ellis wrote: > Tried to drag and drop the person from one file to the other during > Split Screen and couldn’t get it to work in either Family or Index > views. What specifically d

Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 06/12/2013 23:59, John Ellis wrote: > Finally got it to work. Found out drag and drop won't work in Family > or Index display...only in Pedigree display. How very odd! According to Help it will only work in Family or Pedigree view so I just tried it and was able to copy someone from Family Vi

Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?

2013-12-07 Thread Mike Fry
On 2013/12/07 12:17, Jenny M Benson wrote: > It would have been nice if the person copied, dropped into the Children > area below a Husband and Wife, had been received as the couple's child > rather than as an unlinked individual! Then wouldn't that have been a 'grafting' operation rather than a