Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
You could use the split screen function and then you could have both showing at the same time. -Original Message- From: singhals Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:40 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397 MikeFry wrote: > On 07

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread singhals
MikeFry wrote: > On 07 Feb 2014 19:19, singhals wrote: > >> True, but in that it's no worse than the clipboard. >> Whatever floats your boat that day. IMO, it's frequently >> easier to mark/dele than to bounce from pillar to post doing >> ctl-c/ctl-v. > > And then... there's the mouse. You can alw

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread MikeFry
On 07 Feb 2014 19:19, singhals wrote: > True, but in that it's no worse than the clipboard. > Whatever floats your boat that day. IMO, it's frequently > easier to mark/dele than to bounce from pillar to post doing > ctl-c/ctl-v. And then... there's the mouse. You can always mark with the mouse a

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread singhals
MikeFry wrote: > On 07 Feb 2014 17:23, singhals wrote: > >> Using the f-keys perhaps eliminates the need to hi-light >> what one wants copied? In Another Program, I could hit f-8 >> and copy into this NOTES whatever I had last saved in >> some-other NOTES. That was lots easier than hi-lite, ctl-c

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread MikeFry
On 07 Feb 2014 17:23, singhals wrote: > Using the f-keys perhaps eliminates the need to hi-light > what one wants copied? In Another Program, I could hit f-8 > and copy into this NOTES whatever I had last saved in > some-other NOTES. That was lots easier than hi-lite, ctl-c, > page over, ctl-v.

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread singhals
Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 06/02/2014 15:49, MikeFry wrote: >> On 06 Feb 2014 16:12, Jenny M Benson wrote: >> Where does the text come from that you are copying and pasting with the F keys, then? >> Help file - search for 'Memorizing Fields'. > > Well, you live and learn! Thanks for that

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread Brian/Support
I entered a problem report on this issue of the F9, 11 and 12 keys. The programmer has reported it fixed but there will be a necessary change. With the new Legacy interface he was not able to use Shift-Fn so he has made then function work with CTRL-Fn. He says he has updated the help files in all a

RE: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread C.G. Ouimet
m: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: February 07, 2014 04:02 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397 On 06/02/2014 23:40, Gene Young wrote: > Boilerplate refers to text that you use often or repeatedly. Yes, I understand the t

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 06/02/2014 23:40, Gene Young wrote: > Boilerplate refers to text that you use often or repeatedly. Yes, I understand the term. However, I must be being a bit dense, I think because ... In > Legacy it is even faster to use the function keys to do this as you > are not switching between indivi

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Gene Young
On 2/6/2014 3:24 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 06/02/2014 15:49, MikeFry wrote: >> On 06 Feb 2014 16:12, Jenny M Benson wrote: >> Where does the text come from that you are copying and pasting with the F keys, then? >> Help file - search for 'Memorizing Fields'. > > Well, you live and le

RE: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Kurt Kneeland
would be of powerful benefit especially for those that want to do all from the keyboard and avoid the mouse. -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 2:24 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Installed

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 06/02/2014 15:49, MikeFry wrote: > On 06 Feb 2014 16:12, Jenny M Benson wrote: > >> >Where does the text come from that you are copying and pasting with the >> >F keys, then? > Help file - search for 'Memorizing Fields'. Well, you live and learn! Thanks for that, Mike. I will now have to try

RE: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread C.G. Ouimet
- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: February 06, 2014 10:46 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397 On 06 Feb 2014 15:59, C.G. Ouimet wrote: > Shift-Del to cut and Shift-Ins to paste has always been so much more > intuitive

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread MikeFry
On 06 Feb 2014 16:12, Jenny M Benson wrote: > Where does the text come from that you are copying and pasting with the > F keys, then? Help file - search for 'Memorizing Fields'. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp A

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread MikeFry
On 06 Feb 2014 15:59, C.G. Ouimet wrote: > Shift-Del to cut and Shift-Ins to paste has always been so much more > intuitive to me ... Yes, but they're not the 'standard' Microsoft-designated keys. Ctrl-C/Z/V are. The function keys are not. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Gr

RE: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Charles Apple
Thank you Jenny, I was wondering when someone would mention this universal option. Charles -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 8:30 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Gene Young
On 2/6/2014 9:12 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 06/02/2014 13:51, Gene Young wrote: >> Yes because you would then have to have a text file open with your >> "boilerplate" text and you would have to alt-tab between the two >> files, copy from one, alt-tab, paste. Much faster to hit on key and >> mo

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 06/02/2014 13:51, Gene Young wrote: > Yes because you would then have to have a text file open with your > "boilerplate" text and you would have to alt-tab between the two > files, copy from one, alt-tab, paste. Much faster to hit on key and > move on. In any event, I located the problem and t

RE: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread C.G. Ouimet
] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397 On 06/02/2014 01:04, Gene Young wrote: > I have just noticed a serious bug in the latest build, 8.0.0.397. > Whereas in previous builds you could use the F9, F11, and F12 buttons > to copy and paste, in this build they do nothing. Using these > functions saved

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Gene Young
On 2/6/2014 8:30 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 06/02/2014 01:04, Gene Young wrote: >> I have just noticed a serious bug in the latest build, 8.0.0.397. >> Whereas in previous builds you could use the F9, F11, and F12 buttons >> to copy and paste, in this build they do nothing. Using these >> func

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 06/02/2014 01:04, Gene Young wrote: > I have just noticed a serious bug in the latest build, 8.0.0.397. > Whereas in previous builds you could use the F9, F11, and F12 buttons > to copy and paste, in this build they do nothing. Using these > functions saved me literally thousands of key-strokes

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-05 Thread Gene Young
On 2/5/2014 8:35 PM, Gene Young wrote: > On 2/5/2014 8:26 PM, Brant Gibbard wrote: >> It's working exactly as usual for me with that same build. >> >> Brant Gibbard >> Toronto, ON >> http://bgibbard.ca >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Gene Young [mailto:n2...@cfl.rr.com] >> Sent: Februa

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-05 Thread Gene Young
On 2/5/2014 8:26 PM, Brant Gibbard wrote: > It's working exactly as usual for me with that same build. > > Brant Gibbard > Toronto, ON > http://bgibbard.ca > > > -Original Message- > From: Gene Young [mailto:n2...@cfl.rr.com] > Sent: February-05-14 8:04 PM > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.

RE: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-05 Thread Brant Gibbard
It's working exactly as usual for me with that same build. Brant Gibbard Toronto, ON http://bgibbard.ca -Original Message- From: Gene Young [mailto:n2...@cfl.rr.com] Sent: February-05-14 8:04 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397 I have