Windows 7 users. There is a feature in Windows 7 that makes it even simpler. Just open the two windows you want side by side, say Firefox (Or IE) and Legacy. Then take the top bar of one of the windows and drag it to the left, off the screen. When you release the mouse, the window will pop to fill the left half of the screen. Do the same with the other window dragging it to the right side and viola, split screens with two different programs.
If helps if you put your cursor as far left as possible before dragging left and as far right as possible before dragging right. Just makes it happen quicker without having to drag so far. Unfortunately it won't work with overlayed windows within Legacy. For example, if you drag a source window to the left, it will fill half the screen, but you can't drag the underlying family screen to the right. This is a Windows issue, not a Legacy issue. But, there is a work around. If you start with the family window and drag it right, then open, say, the event window and drag it left, you can see both windows at the same time. You can only edit in the event window, however. You can open additional windows from the left window (in our example), say the source window, and keep dragging them left and work on the topmost window while still seeing the family window on the right. You still have to close all the windows individually just as you normally do. (A close and save all would sure be nice...) How do you get back from this split screen view? Click on the Maximize button in the upper right (looks like a square) to make the window full screen, then click on the Restore Down button (same button, but this time it looks like two pieces of paper on top of each other). You are now back to where you started. Sounds a little complicated, but once you've done it a time or two it's pretty easy. -- Jim Walton "...probe the past carefully and report it as it was, not as I wish it were" From Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills 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
