I need help generating a report and have it sort by date of birth.
I have tagged all of my individuals and gone to list report options and set
all of my columns. ( I have the individual's name, father , mother and date
of birth)
At this point I am stuck. the report is alphabetically per
You are accurate in your note. Legacy does not
currently sort by date, so your move to Excel was the
way to go. I have done it in the past, but I don't
understand part of what you wrote.
How I do it is, Go to Search, using search list,
create the various columns (as you seem to have done),
go to
Angela Gabbard wrote:
I need help generating a report and have it sort by date of birth.
The easiest way is to go to http://www.gedmagic.com/GEDxlate.htm and download GEDxlate. Then export
a gedcom from Legacy and import it into GEDxlate. You can include any data you wish and then
Gene Young wrote:
Angela Gabbard wrote:
I need help generating a report and have it sort by date of birth.
The easiest way is to go to http://www.gedmagic.com/GEDxlate.htm and
download GEDxlate. Then export a gedcom from Legacy and import it into
GEDxlate. You can include any data you
Sorry I lost the thread - overly zealous with emptying the Trash.
Legacy does not seem to sort by Month, Days and Years separately, but
once you've imported a csv file into a spreadsheet you can sort it there
with more choice. At least it works in OpenOffice, sort of. If I
import a date
I don't know Open Office, but in Excel go to Format Cells and set date to
show 4 digit years. It will then display correctly.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
Legacy does not seem to sort by Month, Days and Years separately, but once
you've
Please do not forget that Mudcreek's GenViewer will do this also. You
can open a Legacy file in GenViewer, and convert that file to a CVS.
Then, you can open that file from Excel, OpenOffice Calc, Lotus, Quattro
Pro, Boeing Calc (Discontinued, I believe), MultiPlan (eBay?), SuperCalc
that I am
Not a problem, had just chosen the wrong text delimiter for the csv.
First, change your date customization in Legacy to 2001-09-25, ie,
year-mth-day. Save your list as csv. Import into a spreadsheet, sort
the birth date column ascending or descending. It will still put abt,
bef, btw etc
How to display 4 digit years is OK now. Working on how to separate the
'abt's, 'bef's, 'aft's from the main date. Using Replace on the csv to
change, for instance,
abt 1917 to abt,1917 by adding , to the original to create an
additional column with 'abt' in it. Leaves it mixed up though as
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Settings for report options to sort data
Please do not forget that Mudcreek's GenViewer will do this also. You can
open a Legacy file in GenViewer, and convert that file to a CVS. Then, you
can open that file from Excel, OpenOffice
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