The Event/Fact, Description, Date and Place fields are not WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) fields. When you use the CTRL-key to format those fields, including the place, you should see a string of funny characters before and after the text. Those strings of characters are the format codes I mentioned. They tell the reports to turn on the attribute then turn it off again. You only see the text with the format applied in reports. Not sure where you saw the format applied, I did not see it on the event edit screen nor on the individual edit screen.
Remember also my warning about the effect of using those format codes in place names. New York, New York, New York, United States is NOT the same location as that location with those format codes surrounding the name. Unless you are using the same set of format codes on every location you will have multiple copies of the location when you have places with and without format codes added or with different combinations of codes like underline plus Italic and underline only. In family view all the format codes are ignored in the display of the vital events. In Descendant View the place names were displayed only with the format codes not as WYSIWYG. In Chronology View a place name with underline added caused every following line to be underlined in the report style (with the option to have places displayed in reverse order the "format on" code at the start of the place name is not followed by a format off code because that is at the beginning of the place name after the country name which precedes the city in that option. It would be interesting to see how the display would look with all locations having formats applied, the format off codes after each country would turn off the underline then it would turn back on with the city name. Have I convinced you yet that trying to put format on Event Names, Descriptions, Dates and Places is not a good idea? Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 23 Sep 2014 6:40 AM, Pat Hickin wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks so much for your detailed reply. However, you wrote, > "Although you cannot use the format buttons to set the format in the > Event for the Event Name, Description, Dates or Places you can select > the text and use CTRL-i to set italics, CTRL-b for bold, CTRL-u for > underline and CTRL-s for superscript formats." > > That works find in the birth and death fields, but has no effect in the > event location field. In one case I tried both a CTRL-u and a CTRL-i and > it underlined the word but did not italicize it. > > Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
