Dawn, Color coding is for ancestors not descendants. You pick an anchor person and then you can color code 4 or 8 of their ancestral lines. (4 would be the 4 grandparent lines, 8 would be the 8 great-grandparent lines). You can do this with TWO anchor people. Many people will color code their ancestral line and then color code their spouses ancestral lines.
You will see these colors in two places. There will be a colored box on the Family View and you can see it on the Pedigree View. You can also have the colors print on a Pedigree Chart. The two sets of eight colors has a default but you can change any or all of the colors to what you want. If you want me to send you some screen shots that might explain this better just let me know. I can’t send screenshots to the list but I can send them to you directly. Michele Technical Support <mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> mich...@legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com> www.legacyfamilytree.com From: Dawn Beeks [mailto:dawnbe...@msn.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 9:07 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] TMG looking for new home Legacy vs RootsMagic 7 Okay please bear with me on these color questions, as my mind is trained in TMG :) We now have to think outside the box. I have bought both Legacy and Roots Magic 7 and playing with the features. Below CE Wood said I can use 8 colors. If I pick a person/ancestor and color code him, say red, will it go down that particular line and color code all the descendents? (Even if I had to do manually, I’d do it. It would be worth it) The system isn’t going to know if it’s my ancestor, is it? That’s all I need to do, just pick 8 people and give them a color. What am I missing in doing this function. If I can do this, then all is good. I actually needed 9 colors but I can adjust a line. If that can be done, where are the instructions to do the coloring? I tried to do color a person but nothing happened. I tried it on a couple of people but they all stayed the same color blue, that system used when you input a person. Or would it not work because it wasn’t my ancestor line but again how is the computer going to know who my ancestor is anyways. I do like Legacy a bit more over RM7 because it operates/look more like Windows. OMG all this binary talk, I’m lost on that. I’d probably have to attend a class to figure that one out. Hopefully someone can explain this to me, as to why I can’t just pick 8 people. Tks again Dawn Beeks dawnbe...@msn.com <mailto:dawnbe...@msn.com> 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
