Jane, You can also purchase a separate monitor and then have two 'full screens' running off the same computer. For this I use Internet Explorer with my Ancestry.com account up and running, then on the same computer I start up Mozilla Firefox and use that for other searches on a separate screen. If you go to your Desktop, right click you get a menu; select Graphics Options/Output To/Extended Desktop and you can decide how to get the two screens to behave.
I am fortunate to have an even more elegant way. I have a second laptop that I use purely for Legacy, and so effectively have three screens on my desk at once, a little crowded but really easy to jump between sources and Legacy. Dave C ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Sarles To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying people The split screen is a very neat feature. I wonder if one might use it in a manner other than with 2 screens of Legacy? For example, if I am copying information from a site of Family Search 1800 census - can I get the census screen up as one-half of the screen? When I try to close one-half of the split screen, it just reverts to full screen again. I know I can reduce the size of the legacy screen and also the Family Search screen, but I just wondered if there was a more elegant method of putting the two screens side-by-side? I guess the Family Search would have to have a comparable feature in order to do that. Jane On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: Jane, Yes, with any external GEDCOM, Jane. You would need to import the Gedcom and then use the drag and drop for the bits which you require. I use this technique when I only wish to import bits and pieces from a download, otherwise I use the Merge process. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Sarles To: [email protected] Sent: 29 December 2009 20:18 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying people Wow, that sounds neat. I will check into the Split Screen Option and take it from there. You were correct about the point of my question. Can it also be done from a gedcom that we import from - say - Rootsweb? Jane Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
